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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Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
In the view of a high-level talent agent with a privileged understanding of negotiations surrounding Coogler’s deal, studio-executive fears that directors around Hollywood will start demanding copyright ownership en masse are overblown.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Beijing has said those concerns are overblown and that the rise of its high-tech industries is due to its comparative advantages and benefits the world.
—Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
But new research reevaluating one of the only rigorous studies testing that hypothesis suggests those conclusions were probably overblown.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
There are concerns about his lack of elite length outside at left tackle, but those are probably overblown.
—Scott Dochterman, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2025
In the view of a high-level talent agent with a privileged understanding of negotiations surrounding Coogler’s deal, studio-executive fears that directors around Hollywood will start demanding copyright ownership en masse are overblown.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 18 Apr. 2025
Beijing has said those concerns are overblown and that the rise of its high-tech industries is due to its comparative advantages and benefits the world.
—Beijing and Washington Bureaus, USA Today, 14 Apr. 2025
But new research reevaluating one of the only rigorous studies testing that hypothesis suggests those conclusions were probably overblown.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 20 Mar. 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overblown. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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