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Recent Examples of overpriced
Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Not having to carry a soggy sandwich from the house to the office, or fork out for an overpriced meal deal, the study found that remote workers are also more likely to eat more fruit and vegetables, as well as more homemade meals.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Because while booking an overpriced excursion or buying $200 theater tickets might feel out of reach, a $5 cruffin is pretty darn doable.
—Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
With pickup trucks exceeding $100K in some instances and 7-passenger Luxury SUVs having a base price even higher, the need for a basic-entry-level commuter is today’s craze to offset the overpriced and inflated automobile market.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Doctors may assume a decades-old generic medication is inexpensive, yet insurance formularies may make this traditional drug an overpriced option.
—Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the same time, everything from mini-bars to a beer at what were once cheap lobby bars has gotten wildly overpriced, especially on the Strip.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As Sin City grapples with a tourism decline, one Las Vegas icon is pointing fingers at overpriced casinos and hotels and the damage the COVID-19 virus left behind.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Now time to get extremely overpriced food.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 13 Aug. 2025
Adjective
India's secondary market looks overpriced as compared to other emerging markets.
—Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 18 Sep. 2025
Not having to carry a soggy sandwich from the house to the office, or fork out for an overpriced meal deal, the study found that remote workers are also more likely to eat more fruit and vegetables, as well as more homemade meals.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
Because while booking an overpriced excursion or buying $200 theater tickets might feel out of reach, a $5 cruffin is pretty darn doable.
—Allyson Reedy, Denver Post, 12 Sep. 2025
With pickup trucks exceeding $100K in some instances and 7-passenger Luxury SUVs having a base price even higher, the need for a basic-entry-level commuter is today’s craze to offset the overpriced and inflated automobile market.
—Marc D. Grasso, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Doctors may assume a decades-old generic medication is inexpensive, yet insurance formularies may make this traditional drug an overpriced option.
—Dr. Jill Grimes, CNN Money, 8 Sep. 2025
At the same time, everything from mini-bars to a beer at what were once cheap lobby bars has gotten wildly overpriced, especially on the Strip.
—Larry Olmsted, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
As Sin City grapples with a tourism decline, one Las Vegas icon is pointing fingers at overpriced casinos and hotels and the damage the COVID-19 virus left behind.
—Ashley J. Dimella, FOXNews.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Now time to get extremely overpriced food.
—R29 Team, Refinery29, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
Adjective
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Goop, Gwyneth Paltrow’s e-mail newsletter turned e-commerce platform, monetized an all-natural life style, promoting raw-goat-milk cleanses and expensive organic cosmetics.—
Clare Malone,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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Drone dilemma The US excels at building large, expensive weaponry, but most American soldiers lack the know-how for fighting with unmanned systems.—
Daniel Wine,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Some, however, are urging caution, warning the unprecedented success has made the stock overvalued.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
11 Sep. 2025
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Tesla critics say that the stock has become grossly overvalued because of Wall Street’s willingness to buy into Musk’s vision of the future in terms of AI, self-driving vehicles and robots, despite its failures to deliver on past promises along those lines.—
Chris Isidore,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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These generous subsidies were always a wildly expensive and irresponsible fix for the exorbitant premiums that Obamacare itself brought about.—
Sally Pipes,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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Most companies were growing like crazy and offering what at the time seemed exorbitant comp packages for new talent.—
Phil Blair,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Both the Aggies and Fighting Irish ended up being overrated, but a win like that is still a big win.—
Quentin Corpuel,
Kansas City Star,
12 Sep. 2025
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Steve Sarkisian is overrated and always has been.—
Nick Canepa,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Annual revisions released Tuesday by the BLS revealed that initial estimates for nonfarm payrolls data for the 12 months to March of this year were overestimated by 911,000, likely contributing to existing concerns about the state of the labor market and the economy going forward.—
Hugh Cameron,
MSNBC Newsweek,
9 Sep. 2025
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And the final 2024 revision, issued in February, showed that the 2024 data was overestimated by 589,000 jobs.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Charlotte home prices are becoming increasingly unaffordable, along with the rest of the country.—
Desiree Mathurin,
Charlotte Observer,
12 Sep. 2025
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Yet, over the past 15 years that medication has become increasingly unaffordable.—
Ana Santos Rutschman,
The Conversation,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Understanding that a hot exo-atmosphere would be large and inflated in size, and that graphite would absorb practically all of the starlight impacting that atmosphere if there were a high-altitude layer of it, represents a fascinating scenario for explaining the features of these planets.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
10 Sep. 2025
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Keeping tires properly inflated not only extends their life but also squeezes more miles out of every charge—a win for the wallet and the planet.—
Melanie Marshall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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People are describing empty markets, or markets where items are just cost-prohibitive and far too expensive.—
Kaity Kline,
NPR,
18 Sep. 2025
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With the most prohibitive debt burden across all generations and high rates of unemployment, young people are overwhelmed.—
Muskaan Arshad,
Fortune,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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