overhype
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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I suppose I could have prefaced that with a spoiler warning, but really, at this stage in the frenzied cycle of superhero-movie overhype, who are we kidding?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2023
"I said before today's meeting it was impossible to overhype an event such as the one we had today," added Walker.
From BBC ● Mar. 26, 2023
"Overhyping AIDS? It's killed over 750,000 Americans and 36 million worldwide. How do you overhype that?" he questioned.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2021
Yet companies risk getting in their cars’ own way when they overhype current capabilities, prompting customers to put themselves in dangerous situations whose consequences inspire backlash to the autonomous ambition.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2021
San Francisco 49ers cornerback Jimmie Ward, who will likely be guarding passes by Stafford in games this season, didn’t overhype the new Rams quarterback’s abilities.
From Fox News ● Jul. 18, 2021
I would argue it was a slightly overheated and overhyped piece, in terms of how they presented it.
From Slate ● Oct. 31, 2026
But some analysts believe the announcement was overhyped.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
Humanoid robots are starting to enter workplaces alongside humans, but Ray believes the robots have been overhyped, especially with high profile demonstrations.
From BBC ● May 28, 2026
It’s an overhyped story: The armies of El Salvador and Honduras briefly fought each other, ostensibly as a result of a World Cup qualifying game between the two nations in June 1969.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
No one—no reporter, operative, commentator, analyst, or person on the street—wants to look like an idiot by overhyping it again.
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
But the company has also been accused of overhyping the powers of a technology that is its stock in trade, and the subject of neck-and-neck competition with rival OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
After months of teasing and overhyping, the Nothing Phone 1 is finally here.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022
But Musk has also endangered people’s lives by overhyping driver-assistance technology, has repeatedly over-promised technology that hasn’t panned out and has skirted both the law and human decency.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
However, Gerwyn Davies from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said there was a danger of overhyping the shortages, with a fall in the number of young people currently in employed in the UK.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2021
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