as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
Petersen claimed repeatedly that Clark overspent and overhired during his time at the freight forwarding startup.
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Annie Palmer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
Large deficits are caused by overspending on inefficient programs, such as high-speed rail and expansive welfare initiatives that lack proper oversight.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Goldman Sachs analysts suggest Microsoft and AMD’s data points contradict rising investor anxiety that a handful of cloud providers and big technology companies are overspending on Nvidia chips and building too much infrastructure too quickly.
—Kif Leswing,katie Bartlett, CNBC, 31 July 2024
While Nvidia is seeing soaring demand from cloud companies and the leading developers of AI models, Wall Street is asking whether the chipmaker’s top clients are overspending on AI infrastructure.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
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Annie Palmer, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
Large deficits are caused by overspending on inefficient programs, such as high-speed rail and expansive welfare initiatives that lack proper oversight.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Orange County Register, 4 Oct. 2024
Goldman Sachs analysts suggest Microsoft and AMD’s data points contradict rising investor anxiety that a handful of cloud providers and big technology companies are overspending on Nvidia chips and building too much infrastructure too quickly.
—Kif Leswing,katie Bartlett, CNBC, 31 July 2024
While Nvidia is seeing soaring demand from cloud companies and the leading developers of AI models, Wall Street is asking whether the chipmaker’s top clients are overspending on AI infrastructure.
—Kif Leswing, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
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With streamers scaling back on investment, some indie projects with bloated budgets have gone from one market to another, struggling to find buyers willing to splurge.Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 5 Nov. 2024
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Or splurge on an all-day excursion — Tritten leads private groups on goat hikes to a remote waterfall.Kailyn Brown, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Taiwan already spends billions of dollars on U.S. military equipment.Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2024
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Bratcher hopes to be involved with planning and zoning, road issues and spending time on constituent services.Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 6 Nov. 2024
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If necessary, vampire bats can gorge and consume four times their body weight in liquid.Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 7 Nov. 2024
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Koalas spend most of their time sleeping and eating — consuming a diet mostly of eucalyptus leaves.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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The Lakers’ already depleted frontcourt took another hit with their latest injury.Khobi Price, Orange County Register, 13 Nov. 2024
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Risdon Beazley was acquired by Smit Tak, a Dutch rival, and the fleet was gradually depleted.Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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That a short-term judgment about what the market will bear can choke off a literary legacy and, to some extent, impoverish a culture.Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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The National Council on Aging has found that 80% of older adults would be unable to absorb a financial shock — such as the need for long-term care — without impoverishing themselves.Jane Tavares, The Conversation, 8 Oct. 2024
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Retirees would also be facing a bigger benefit cut, up to 33% of their monthly checks rather than the 23% currently forecast, when the trust fund is exhausted, the group estimates.Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2024
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Make people exhausted, confused, thinking the political system doesn’t work anymore.Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2024
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Reports have emerged from the Harris campaign about infighting and panic over her squandering her momentum.Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 26 Oct. 2024
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Mark Alcazar Oakley Electing Trump would squander WWII effort Why did the United States and our allies bother to defeat fascism in World War II?Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 25 Oct. 2024
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Good post for a mid- to late-November afternoon: 70 to 100 yards back in timber and along the thickest, nastiest ditch that leads out to crops. 59) Don’t waste precious rut-hunting time.Michael Hanback, Outdoor Life, 7 Nov. 2024
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Yet, at least once, maybe twice a month, they get totally wasted and the wife calls me and rambles on incoherently.Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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