overextend
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“Media organizations should also explore creative deal structures — including minority stakes, joint ventures, and content-sharing alliances — to secure access to essential assets and technologies without overextending their balance sheets.”
From Los Angeles Times
In 1999, Hicks told the Dallas Morning News, “My biggest challenge in life is that I am totally overextended.”
Only a couple of compact cars sell for less than $15,000, and a robust vehicle-financing market may tempt many buyers to overextend themselves for pricier cars, with term loans creeping above five years.
From MarketWatch
“I do see a lot of people overextending themselves.”
From MarketWatch
The important question for investors, therefore, is to what extent this secular bull market may be overextended, just as some of its supports fade.
From MarketWatch
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