were overspending
- past progressive of overspend.
Example Sentences
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Last week, concerns that tech companies were overspending on AI initiatives pulled the Nasdaq Composite Index into its biggest weekly decline since April.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
The real problem, he said, was that local farmers were overspending on their children’s education.
From New York Times ● Feb. 23, 2014
Hopkins and his deputies "would wait until the last minute before letting Bell and me know they were overspending, then they would appeal to our emotions by reminding us of the plight of the jobless."
From Time Magazine Archive
