oversell
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And he would oversell the ability he and I had.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 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
In the same way that airlines oversell seats, cruise lines may compensate for cancellations by overselling staterooms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 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
Ms. Low tacitly admits that the prevailing culture has been overselling the rewards of work—and playing down the importance of relationships, i.e., marriage and children, as a cornerstone of a woman’s happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025
It keeps well, travels well — and I swear I’m not overselling — it really is extraordinary.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
During a game between the two teams in June, Carrington appeared to mock Clark for overselling a foul call.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2024
Kimmelman worries potential overselling of trial benefits isn’t limited to cancer.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 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
This is momentum tracker that many use to first determine whether a charted instrument becomes overbought or oversold.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
The federal lawsuit claims the AI company oversold usage allowances on its priciest Claude chatbot tiers and asks for Anthropic to reimburse its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
To unaffiliated scientists, Colossal’s talk of de-extincting long-gone species is hyperbole: hopelessly premature and consistently oversold.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
“Unfortunately, we’re oversold on this flight,” she says.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
