Examples of overly in a Sentence
These directions are overly complex.
She's overly sensitive to criticism.
They didn't seem overly concerned about the problem.
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And Merz has a personal reputation for being cocky, ambitious, and overly cerebral.
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Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Placing handcuffs on an opinion section in this way seems likely to make an opinion section overly one-sided, as Mr. Bezos himself implies.
—arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
To make matters worse, some of the material was overly redacted — the same material had already been available on the internet in unredacted form.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
But Su Tzu-yun, a director of Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said the lack of a nuclear option has not overly affected Taiwan’s modern defense capabilities, because precision ammunition can be used to achieve similar objectives to those of tactical nuclear weapons.
—Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
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Joseph De Weck, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2025
Placing handcuffs on an opinion section in this way seems likely to make an opinion section overly one-sided, as Mr. Bezos himself implies.
—arkansasonline.com, 1 Mar. 2025
To make matters worse, some of the material was overly redacted — the same material had already been available on the internet in unredacted form.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
But Su Tzu-yun, a director of Taiwan’s Institute for National Defense and Security Research, said the lack of a nuclear option has not overly affected Taiwan’s modern defense capabilities, because precision ammunition can be used to achieve similar objectives to those of tactical nuclear weapons.
—Eric Cheung, CNN, 1 Mar. 2025
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“Overly.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overly. Accessed 5 Mar. 2025.
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