overblown
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Getting here now — typing away while I sniffle with a cold, a life I wouldn’t change for the world — required carefully deflating a rapidly overblown ego.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
Yet a look at market returns over the past century suggests that those fears may be somewhat overblown.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 4, 2026
Some might call such fears melodramatic, or overblown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2026
And while that last claim is somewhat breathless and overblown, the story told by Mr. Kerbaj teems with spies and spy catchers who could have slithered off the pages of John le Carré.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Off to the side is the garden—a bit of an overblown name for it, since it’s mostly large, uneven rocks surrounded by pale-green shrubs, the color of eucalyptus.
From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed
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