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overblown

[oh-ver-blohn] / ˈoʊ vərˈbloʊn /


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Also worth noting is Yann LeCun, who shared the Turing Award with Hinton and Bengio and has spent years dismissing their warnings of existential danger as overblown.

From Barron's Sep. 15, 2026

Others argue that the concerns themselves are overblown, noting that intelligence doesn’t always manifest as a will to dominate.

From Slate Sep. 9, 2026

Military officials have disputed that there are severe issues afflicting the ship, and some veterans have also suggested that the accounts in the media are overblown.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Some argued that the fears of displacement from AI are overblown.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 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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