overblown

Example Sentences

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I’ll admit it: I think our collective weeknight blender hatred is a bit overblown.

From Salon • Mar. 25, 2026

He was steadfast that all he was doing was helping, that the objections were cosmetic, and overblown.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2026

He also argued that fears about private credit concerns in the banking sector are overblown.

From Barron's • Mar. 19, 2026

Private-credit chieftains including Apollo CEO Marc Rowan and Blackstone President Jon Gray said last year that these were isolated cases and that fears of wider stresses in private credit are overblown.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026

Cell phone industry officials said that the fact traffic deaths hadn’t soared meant that distraction from electronic gadgets was being overblown as a threat.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel