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Example Sentences

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The bank’s analysts remain “constructive” on stocks despite the risks of an overly concentrated market.

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Biopics are “an exasperating genre,” Variety wrote, smushing some of “the planet’s most unorthodox personalities into a reductive, overly moralistic mold.”

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The hidebound company, overly reliant on mainframe computers, had been out-hustled by nimbler makers of desktop computers and software.

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But I was overly concerned that the post-tariff rebound had overshot, and it ended up going up a lot further.

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Palantir is too dependent on stingy government contracts and overly generous to its executives, he said.

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