Example Sentences

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San Francisco, in particular, is lagging so badly precisely because it’s downtown employment is overspecialized in professional, scientific, and technical services.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 22, 2022

In short, the panda overspecialized, and ever since then, it's been trying to survive.

From Slate • Feb. 6, 2014

Instead of being vexed by overspecialized terminology, experts conversed excitedly, more so than ever!

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2012

And in the course of pampering this sort of overspecialized pathos, the far more pathetic and important story which the picture pretends to tell gets pretty thoroughly tear-dimmed.

From Time Magazine Archive

He loved ocean currents and architecture and Charles Dickens, and his variousness made her feel limited, overspecialized.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr