Example Sentences

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Many of these stories have been reported as examples of “cancel culture” run amok or students displaying catastrophic oversensitivity.

From Slate • Dec. 14, 2023

Professor Loury, who frequently laments the oversensitivity of college students, said he would not send such an email now, because her comments were an opportunity for vigorous debate.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2023

An extraneous burden to my team, a mark of my oversensitivity they could ridicule later in the resident’s room over lunch.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2019

It is advisable not to insult people, as in the case of a white author wearing a sombrero to make her point about cultural oversensitivity.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2016

“Frailness and oversensitivity from my mother. A fat liver from Stew. And all those old rugs.”

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee