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Recent Examples of overexcited
High-profile figures, from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, have suggested in recent months that investors have become overexcited about AI, as companies bet big on the technology with multibillion-dollar investments.
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Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2025
Some dogs became overexcited before play even began, forcing owners to physically restrain them from snatching the toys, Mazzini said.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
If the offense continues to be electric, the fans might get overexcited.
—Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models.
—ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
Calm restored in the Treasury market, yields settling back slightly to quiet the overexcited talk about fiscal fissures.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2025
After a brain injury, NMDA receptors can become overexcited, causing further cell death, so quieting these receptors might prevent additional damage.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
Team members become overexcited about their fantasy football teams, or individuals chat about the latest Netflix hit.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
However, some overexcited roadies (played by Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey and Dennis Miller) resulted in Bertinelli getting up and leaving before the dinner had even really started.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Sylvan Lane, The Hill, 13 Oct. 2025
Some dogs became overexcited before play even began, forcing owners to physically restrain them from snatching the toys, Mazzini said.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 9 Oct. 2025
If the offense continues to be electric, the fans might get overexcited.
—Jim Keyser, Idaho Statesman, 6 Sep. 2025
Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models.
—ArsTechnica, 21 Aug. 2025
Calm restored in the Treasury market, yields settling back slightly to quiet the overexcited talk about fiscal fissures.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 2 June 2025
After a brain injury, NMDA receptors can become overexcited, causing further cell death, so quieting these receptors might prevent additional damage.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 29 May 2025
Team members become overexcited about their fantasy football teams, or individuals chat about the latest Netflix hit.
—Cheryl Robinson, Forbes.com, 23 May 2025
However, some overexcited roadies (played by Kevin Nealon, Dana Carvey and Dennis Miller) resulted in Bertinelli getting up and leaving before the dinner had even really started.
—Becca Longmire, People.com, 5 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overexcited
Adjective
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There are so many people who are excited to have me back in some capacity as Superman.—
Charles Infosino,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
23 Oct. 2025
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Today, scientists are extremely excited about how AI can be used to predict the way molecules interact, transforming areas like drug discovery and materials science.—
Reed Albergotti,
semafor.com,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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As estrogen decreases during menopause, nerves in the hypothalamus — an almond-size region deep inside the brain whose functions include helping regulate the body’s thermostat — become hyperactive and produce an overabundance of chemical signals called neurokinins.—
Jacqueline Howard,
CNN Money,
24 Oct. 2025
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Reading poetry out loud also requires us to pause for punctuation or line breaks, increasing our parasympathetic tone and dampening our hyperactive sympathetic nervous system.—
K.J.S. “Sunny” Anand,
Time,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Our amygdala is overactive, our nervous systems are fried and our dopamine cycles are hijacked by short-term stimuli.—
Chris Schembra,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Typically, the immune-stimulating tactics employed in the past have either done too little to activate the immune system or done too much, triggering an overactive response that can damage the body.—
Kaitlin Sullivan,
NBC news,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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In this effective, no-nonsense chiller, a couple – one with an escalating form of parasomnia (a sleep disturbance that leads to fugue-like sleep walking) – seek and don’t get some R&R together and wind up arguing more and getting more agitated as freaky things start to happen.—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
24 Oct. 2025
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Thomas appeared agitated that he was not allowed to resume playing.—
Steve Fryer,
Oc Register,
24 Oct. 2025
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Life, though hectic, felt steady – until late March, when the 26-year-old student discovered a swollen lymph node on her neck that would quietly shift the course of everything.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
PEOPLE,
18 Oct. 2025
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The hectic nature of it all has not gone unnoticed, with talent being whisked back and forth around the capital to events often happening simultaneously.—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn’t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
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This is the kind of overwrought language that even sympathetic readers like me find laughable.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
20 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Opa-locka’s origin story is inseparable from the frenzied development of South Florida in the 1920s.—
Carmen F de Terenzio,
Miami Herald,
28 Oct. 2025
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An 0-2 start to the season suddenly has a 4-1 feel to it after Marion and company celebrated a wild 40-35 victory over upstart Northern Colorado on Saturday night in front of a frenzied crowd of 20,022 at Hornet Stadium.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
19 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.—
James Wood,
New Yorker,
10 Oct. 2025
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Decorated former All-Stars, fireballing relievers, and useful utility players, all gone in a feverish streak of trades to clear the path to a messy rebuild.—
Jackson Roberts,
MSNBC Newsweek,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Overexcited.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overexcited. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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