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In 2019, Buffett said he had overpaid to help form Kraft Heinz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

The only specific financial outcome of the report: Auditors discovered the Angels had overpaid $95,000 in ticket revenue to the city in 2021.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

Trian and another firm, Blackwells Capital, said the board had overpaid executives and bungled its responsibility to pick a new chief executive.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2024

Musk acknowledged he had overpaid for the company.

From Slate • Nov. 29, 2023

He did not notice it at the time, but after his customer had gone he saw that she had overpaid him.

From The Beginner's American History by Montgomery, D. H. (David Henry)