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
"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
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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 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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