as in values
to place too high a value on
some people overvalue material things
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Recent Examples of overvalues
By including rising rents into the calculation for how much landlord expenses are increasing, the data overvalues landlord expenses to justify further rent increases.
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Joanne Grell, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
Joanne Grell, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overvalues
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Forbes currently values Musk's net worth at $826 billion and his stake in SpaceX at $542 billion.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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Lurie partly values Roseman because of his strategic aggressiveness to make sure great players are locked down long term.—
Brooks Kubena,
New York Times,
1 June 2026
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Hopkins is, perhaps, the closest thing this story has to a Kornev—a principled outsider who ultimately overestimates the value of his own empathy and knowledge.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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But that, to me, overestimates the show’s ubiquity.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
20 Mar. 2026
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But Gibbard appreciates how fans have reassessed Plans similarly years later.—
Ilana Kaplan,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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Thompson appreciates cartoons that do this well.—
Alex Shoemaker,
Parents,
6 June 2026
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Essentially, every top Premier League team admires Rogers.—
Mario Cortegana,
New York Times,
3 June 2026
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One local customer found her work on social media and admires it.—
Michael Butler,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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“Overvalues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overvalues. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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