oversell
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It’s also true that the egg-freezing industry has an incentive to overpromise and oversell.
From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026
“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
No superlative too grand to oversell the matchup.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2024
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
“I believe that is grossly overselling what one should expect from those workouts,” said Cedric X. Bryant, CEO of the American Council on Exercise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
Investigators for the Government Accountability Office recently went car shopping, undercover, to see whether salespeople were overselling autonomous driving abilities.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 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 Rex Ellingwood Beach
Uncertainty over the Federal Reserve’s next moves, the standoff between the U.S. and Iran and whether the AI build-out is oversold or overhyped have all clouded the outlook for stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 2026
The index went from being oversold and trading below the lower Bollinger Band to being overbought and trading above the upper Bollinger Band.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
Afterward, even Pochettino acknowledged he may have oversold things just a bit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026
But “Wedges” oversold the readiness of carbon capture and storage, describing it as “already deployed” industrially.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
“Unfortunately, we’re oversold on this flight,” she says.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
