oversell
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“When we are nervous about getting a job we really want, we try to oversell ourselves,” West said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026
“We’re not trying to over-hype or oversell something we can’t deliver.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2025
OK, maybe that’s a sensational oversell — but his latest character knows that news stories need a hook to draw readers in fast.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2025
For this reason, it’s important not to oversell the potential role suzetrigine may play in future pain care.
From Salon ● Feb. 10, 2025
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
Resisting AI innovation is as wrongheaded as overselling its immediate impact and needlessly scaring American workers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 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
“Love Lies Bleeding” isn’t on par with Cain or Thompson, and overselling a comparison would be silly.
From New York Times ● Mar. 7, 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 Beach, Rex Ellingwood
But “Wedges” oversold the readiness of carbon capture and storage, describing it as “already deployed” industrially.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Since then, however, signs that AI has been oversold as a world-changing technology have proliferated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
This is momentum tracker that many use to first determine whether a charted instrument becomes overbought or oversold.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
A consumer is demanding that Anthropic reimburse customers of its priciest artificial intelligence subscription plans, alleging in a new lawsuit that the company oversold the usage allowances it offered.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Unfortunately, we’re oversold on this flight,” she says.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
