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overpriced

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verb

past tense of overprice

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overpriced
Adjective
  • But training those drivers is expensive, Merrifield said, so colleges can’t necessarily afford to enroll more students.
    Natalie Yahr, jsonline.com, 19 July 2025
  • In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an executive order suspending environmental rules around rebuilding.
    Umair Irfan, Wired News, 19 July 2025
Adjective
  • All of this is helpful information and helps justify this exorbitant increase.
    The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • The projection also comes as other recreational and cultural institutions and senior centers like the one in McGovern Park face costly and exorbitant levels of deferred maintenance, with no viable funding options in the county's capital budget to address them.
    Vanessa Swales, jsonline.com, 3 July 2025
Adjective
  • And when care becomes unaffordable or inaccessible, the ripple effects hit everyone.
    Reshma Saujani, New York Daily News, 6 July 2025
  • Will lower mortgage rates convince California house hunters to stop balking at unaffordable homes on the market?
    Jonathan Lansner, Oc Register, 5 July 2025
Verb
  • Prepare for the world’s biggest bounce house to be inflated in the Sacramento area this weekend.
    Marcus D. Smith, Sacramento Bee, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Its workers routinely inflated the results to scare their bosses.
    Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Under the new bill, three kinds of people will become eligible for an HSA for whom rules had previously been either murky or prohibitive.
    Ryan Ermey, CNBC, 10 July 2025
  • Keeping more than five outside linebackers would be prohibitive to roster building, so Ojabo very easily could be looking for a new team later this summer. DeFabo: Even though some have speculated that Watt could be traded, that feels unlikely.
    Jeff Zrebiec, New York Times, 8 July 2025
Adjective
  • Bradenton Gulf Islands, Florida Where neighboring islands like Lido Key and Longboat Key can be pricey due in part to the presence of properties like Ritz-Carlton and St. Regis, Anna Maria Island and its Bradenton beaches have the same white sandy shores without the staggering nightly rates.
    Kelsey Glennon, Southern Living, 13 July 2025
  • According to the Michelin Guide, not all restaurants included in the guide are fancy or pricey.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 13 July 2025
Adjective
  • The rapidly dropping cost of inference means that use cases that are uneconomic today may not be six to 12 months in the future.
    Jeffrey Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 May 2025
  • High level indicators of risk include goods being received from unusually complex or apparently uneconomic supply routes, for example, regular supplies of UK produced goods that have been exported from the UK and then re-imported.
    Mark Littler, Forbes.com, 16 May 2025
Adjective
  • His exact demands are unknown but given his status as one of the world’s leading players a range of £250,000 to £300,000 a week is far from unreasonable.
    Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 25 July 2025
  • Barbara Attard, a police accountability expert, said meet and confer can last months, but beyond a year is unreasonable.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 July 2025
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“Overpriced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overpriced. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.

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