overhype
Americanverb (used with object)
noun
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"Before the game, I felt we were in a really good space. I felt our players were ready. They didn’t overhype it," said Skinner.
From BBC ● May 12, 2024
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
But some analysts believe the announcement was overhyped.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 20, 2026
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
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
But the company has also been accused of overhyping the powers of a technology which is its stock in trade, and the subject of fierce competition with rival OpenAI.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 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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