oversell
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“I’m not trying to oversell here, but there is a family office small-ticket size and as it gets filled there’s no more room,” Stevens said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026
It’s also true that the egg-freezing industry has an incentive to overpromise and oversell.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“When we are nervous about getting a job we really want, we try to oversell ourselves,” West said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026
No superlative too grand to oversell the matchup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024
But he’s funny as hell up there—sinking to his knees, grasping his head, moaning—and I don’t want to oversell it or anything, but this just may be the most iconic performance of all time.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
“I believe that is grossly overselling what one should expect from those workouts,” said Cedric X. Bryant, CEO of the American Council on Exercise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
It keeps well, travels well — and I swear I’m not overselling — it really is extraordinary.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
Kimmelman worries potential overselling of trial benefits isn’t limited to cancer.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
In the same way that airlines oversell seats, cruise lines may compensate for cancellations by overselling staterooms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Gray had set himself deliberately to the task of selling himself to this gentleman of the press, and, having succeeded, he was enough of a salesman to avoid the fatal error of overselling.
From Flowing Gold by Rex Ellingwood Beach
When RSI drops below 30, it’s seen as depicting an oversold condition, which just means the stock has suffered a historically extreme decline.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 12, 2026
“The market had already reached fairly oversold levels and was primed for a reversal,” says Julia Wang of Nomura International Wealth Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026
The alleged Coral traders who sold the diesel, frustrated that Soglayev hadn’t paid them, pursued him before an arbitration tribunal in Dubai, accusing him of having oversold his capabilities and effectively stealing the fuel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
An administrative error resulted in coach journeys to the Glastonbury Festival being oversold through its official ticketing partner.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
“Unfortunately, we’re oversold on this flight,” she says.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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