1
: excessively large in girth : portly
2
: inflated
overblown claims
overblown rhetoric
also
: pretentious
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Adjective (2)
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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This has always been a slightly overblown construct — Donovan had been hitting a wall in the playoffs and the Thunder were growing restless for new coaching options — but storylines are hard to shake in the NBA.
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Adjective
Reports that Lindor and Soto didn’t get along last season, their first on the Mets together, were overblown.
—Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 16 Feb. 2026
Though some analysts have long warned of impending mass mortgage defaults in China, others think fears may be overblown.
—Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 13 Feb. 2026
This has always been a slightly overblown construct — Donovan had been hitting a wall in the playoffs and the Thunder were growing restless for new coaching options — but storylines are hard to shake in the NBA.
—Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
To Siebel Newsom, the portrayal of her son’s interest in Kirk and other conservative figures was overblown.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 Feb. 2026
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 17 Feb. 2026.
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