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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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"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

"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

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

However, some argued the reaction to Kimi K3 was overhyped.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 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 generate attention.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

India's vice-captain Shubman Gill dismisses talk of overhyping, calling it a contest fans love to watch.

From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2025

In the early 1980s, he often simultaneously spoofed and exploited the overhyping of technological innovation, particularly in themed episodes like “the custom-made show,” written by Chris Elliott and Matt Wickline.

From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022

After months of teasing and overhyping, the Nothing Phone 1 is finally here.

From The Verge ● Jul. 15, 2022

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