overpaid
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The proportion of 1,000 marketing and procurement leaders surveyed by Billion Dollar Boy who said they felt they had overpaid for creator fees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He's since been notified he was overpaid £32,188 and must hand it back.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Twelve years ago, Steve Ballmer bought the Clippers for $2 billion and admitted he willingly overpaid.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026
That amount was the subject of a Senate investigation into whether Black had intentionally overpaid Epstein, cloaking money paid for personal reasons in the guise of financial services.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The Count gave him a golden goblet containing one hundred louis d'ors, though, as a work of art, Bach would not have been overpaid had the present been a thousand times as large.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Johann Nikolaus Forkel