overprice
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of overprice
Example Sentences
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“On the Assembly side, it was a great concern that we did not overprice our constituents,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2023
Among single-family homes, brokers said, the feverish market over the last year has led some sellers to overprice their houses, only to get few or no offers in recent weeks.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 2021
We cannot overstress profits or overprice goods until we have channeled sufficient incomes to households for them to afford higher-priced goods.
From Salon ● Jan. 6, 2019
If you overprice your house, you run the risk of it sitting on the market for too long.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 17, 2016
Federal police said Paulo Bernardo was involved in a scheme at the Planning Ministry to overprice contracts of information technology services from 2010 to 2015.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2016
"An overpriced Dubai skyscraper" was among the many critical comments on social media, while lawmaker Gabor Grendel of the opposition Slovensko party called it "the most expensive corn in the world".
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
Regulatory guardrails embedded in FHA and VA loans such as strict fee caps help protect lower-income borrowers from taking extremely overpriced loans, but many wealthy buyers frequently overpay.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
The temptation will be to play umpire and decide from the chair whether AI stocks are overpriced and then lean against them, or to hint that the Fed will catch the market if they fall.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
But step back, and when companies as a group turn into sellers, it’s a reasonable sign that stocks are very overpriced.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
“Somebody is going to snap it up soon, tear it down, and put up a gleaming block of overpriced luxury flats.”
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"It seems likely that there is overpricing," he added.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Many celebrity homes that languish on the market are caused by overpricing, as in the Baldwins’ case, or over-personalization, as with Jordan’s sports palace.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 3, 2026
What’s more, it’s easy to misinterpret overpricing for part of the market as an indication that everything is a bubble.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
This overpricing of accessible naloxone is simply another example of the outrageous cost of drugs within the United States.
From Washington Post ● May 1, 2023
In the bank's baseline scenario, Treasury yields will continue to have "more degrees of freedom" than JGBs, noting that U.S. front-end rates "are overpricing recession odds, and underpricing the Fed cycle".
From Reuters ● Dec. 21, 2022
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