as in unequal
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as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than
my determination to finish the job overbalanced my exhaustion
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overbalanced
Adjective
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The challenge is not the technology itself but rather unequal access to it.—
Sam Sammane,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025 -
But despite the canal’s financial success, Panama today is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.—
Whitney Eulich,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Apr. 2025
Verb
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But that benefit is speculative, would occur far in the future, and is clearly outweighed the obvious costs.—
Eswar Prasad,
Foreign Affairs,
3 Apr. 2025
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But the potential to detect and address health issues early on ultimately outweighed her fears.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Months earlier, Charles Vallow had told police that his wife was threatening to kill him, describing her behavior as increasingly unbalanced.—
Bill Chappell,
NPR,
9 Apr. 2025
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Perhaps even more than that, PSG — long dismissed and derided as a hopelessly unbalanced gaggle of individual superstars — have become a team, widely respected for the remarkable industriousness of their football and the humble, unshowy brilliance of their young players.—
Tom Williams,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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But Kennedy didn’t appear to publicly address a Native health program using traditional medicine and foods to tackle disproportionate rates of conditions such as diabetes and liver disease.—
Devna Bose,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Apr. 2025
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That has gotten a little bit of disproportionate attention.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
11 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Despite high trade deficits, the U.S. economy is strong Trump and his advisers point to America’s lopsided trade numbers—year after year of huge deficits—as proof of foreigners’ perfidy.—
Time,
Time,
9 Apr. 2025
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House was on the way to a lopsided victory in Tuesday’s consolidated election over Casundra Hopson-Jordan.—
Richard Requena,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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The penial fold, however, is asymmetrical, earning the species its name, researchers said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
9 Apr. 2025
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For the occasion, the actress changed into a classic black dress with a V-neckline and an asymmetrical, off-the-shoulder design on one side.—
Renan Botelho,
Footwear News,
4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Symptoms of the condition can include shortness of breath, a sudden drop in blood pressure, an abnormal heart rate, and bleeding from the uterus, C-section, or IV sites.—
Korin Miller,
SELF,
8 Apr. 2025
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Tau tangles are also implicated in other neurological diseases such as frontal lobe dementia, or FTD, and Lewy body dementia in which abnormal clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein accumulate in the brain’s neurons.—
Sandee LaMotte,
CNN Money,
7 Apr. 2025
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“Overbalanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbalanced. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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