overhype
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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"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
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
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
“You live for this stuff, but you don’t overhype it,” Bowling said.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2021
I didn’t watch the show when it was first released; I thought it had to be overhyped.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
Is Kimi Antonelli being overhyped due to results that largely he's been a tad fortunate with?
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
“While some commentators wonder whether AI is overhyped, we think it is probably underhyped,” say strategists led by Willem Sels, global chief investment officer.
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 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
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
India's vice-captain Shubman Gill dismisses talk of overhyping, calling it a contest fans love to watch.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025
After months of teasing and overhyping, the Nothing Phone 1 is finally here.
From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022
Yet while flexible working certainly brings certain benefits, overhyping it comes with its own dangers, as its deployment has in some cases led to the undermining of working conditions rather than their enhancement.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2021
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
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