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overhype

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[oh-ver-hahyp] / ˌoʊ vərˈhaɪp /

verb (used with object)

overhyped, overhyping
  1. to hype someone or something excessively.


noun

  1. an excessive amount of hype.

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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

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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