overhype
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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In the much-hyped age of sporting overhype, it can be difficult for contests to live up to their hyper-hyped expectations.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2023
If this sounds like overhype, it’s almost impossible to overstate how excited NBA teams are for this player.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
"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
"Do they know that big picture implications are always out there? They always will be out there. I don’t think you try to overhype anything."
From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2021
“You live for this stuff, but you don’t overhype it,” Bowling said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 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
Uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next moves, the standoff between the U.S. and Iran and whether the AI build-out is oversold or overhyped have all clouded the outlook for stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
Is Kimi Antonelli being overhyped due to results that largely he's been a tad fortunate with?
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
When Project Glasswing launched, some critics accused Anthropic of overhyping the threat to attract attention.
From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026
Most have been criticized for overhyping their ability to meet their own production goals, make timely deliveries to customers, or eventually, earn a profit.
From The Verge ● Jul. 26, 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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