as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
In the non-departmental category, the city is overspending on human resources benefits, and for oil, water and electricity, according to the report.
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City News Service,
Daily News,
4 June 2026
Transportation is one area where many travelers overspend without realizing it.
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Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 May 2026
Costs will continue to increase while our leaders continue to overspend and engage in graft.
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David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
But in that towering proposal, experts say there’s obvious signs of waste and overspend.
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Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
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City News Service,
Daily News,
4 June 2026
Transportation is one area where many travelers overspend without realizing it.
—
Lauren Dana Ellman,
Travel + Leisure,
28 May 2026
Costs will continue to increase while our leaders continue to overspend and engage in graft.
—
David Garrick,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
7 May 2026
But in that towering proposal, experts say there’s obvious signs of waste and overspend.
—
Jake Angelo,
Fortune,
3 May 2026
See All Example Sentences for overspend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
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Flush with this newfound wealth, a growing number of South Korean retail investors are splurging on luxury goods like those sold at Shinsegae, according to analysts.
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Taken together, the Prime Day 2026 data paints a portrait of a consumer base that is active but strained, spending but not splurging, and increasingly reliant on financial instruments — and retail events — to manage the gap between income and anxiety.
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During our time away, our neighbors visited with us at the hospital, looked after our house and came over daily to feed and spend time with our cat.
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American doctors are so conspicuously well-paid that a group of economic researchers spent years trying to figure out why.
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Every one of those calls consumes tokens and touches a system with its own permissions.
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Public health data has taught us that alcohol, which can be fine when consumed in moderation, can be harmful to individual and societal health in excessive amounts.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill also removed a tax on Social Security benefits, depleting another source of the program's revenue.
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Without significant reform measures from Congress, the widening deficit threatens to deplete the trust funds that finance Social Security in 2032, and Medicare one year later.
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There are some people who believe that new residents impoverish and take away from our quality of life and our schools.
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At the same time, serving your nation shouldn’t impoverish you or prevent your spouse or children from having a career or saving for retirement.
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In the finals, Israel faced an Australian team already exhausted after fending off South Korea, Japan and Rhodesia (itself in the Asian tournament after being banned in Africa over its white governing regime).
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For years, people have been frustrated and exhausted by the seemingly endless amount of swiping and small talk that go nowhere on dating apps.
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Still, Twain squandered his own fortune and Livy’s inheritance on developing Paige’s invention, even as the Mergenthaler Linotype became the industry standard, rendering Paige’s machine worthless.
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Iyanla Vanzant, the program’s host, chided Holmes for squandering much of her fortune, buying properties and paying allowances to hangers-on.
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Once again, no one is here for the play-acting, the time-wasting, the cheating.
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Rather than simply reducing power use across the board, the system attempts to identify exactly when machinery is wasting energy and proposes operational changes that can reduce consumption without disrupting productivity.
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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