as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
The city’s fire department, which also overspends its budget, saw two fire stations temporarily close, with more brownouts expected in February.
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Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
But should the group be dinged for overspending billions of dollars on their previous AI model development?
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
That might mean a tight budget to avoid overspending in the short term to focus on chipping away at outstanding balances.
—Kayla Steinberg, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
With this desperation comes the willingness to overspend.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2025
But should the group be dinged for overspending billions of dollars on their previous AI model development?
—Jeff Marks, CNBC, 27 Jan. 2025
That might mean a tight budget to avoid overspending in the short term to focus on chipping away at outstanding balances.
—Kayla Steinberg, NBC News, 27 Jan. 2025
With this desperation comes the willingness to overspend.
—John Yoo and John Shu, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overspend
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspend
Verb
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In addition to reconsidering your values and finances, material themes from the past may come back around for a second look, whether that’s an investment or the desire to splurge.—
Valerie Mesa,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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For the ultimate indulgence, splurge on a beach house, villa, or estate, which come with butler service.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
AFAR Media,
27 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Edman spent much of the winter seemingly pegged to be the club’s everyday center fielder, with a chance to work into the infield mix occasionally.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
3 Mar. 2025
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Days can be spent visiting Buddhist temples, swimming beneath waterfalls, and hopping on boats to snorkel around colorful coral reefs.—
Nicole Kliest,
Vogue,
2 Mar. 2025
Verb
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Data centers supporting these operations also consume vast amounts of water for cooling purposes, with each inference of 20–50 queries on a large language model using approximately 500 milliliters of water.—
Monica Sanders,
Forbes,
4 Mar. 2025
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One in three consumes four or more drinks per week.—
Kristen Mascia,
Parents,
4 Mar. 2025
Verb
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In Always On mode, the generator remains on until the battery is depleted or the power is manually turned off.—
PCMAG,
PCMAG,
6 Mar. 2025
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That would’ve depleted a stockpile of, say, 10,000 rockets in less than a month.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
Verb
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His son visits Baghdad and Fallujah during summer vacations, puzzled by his family’s political reticence and by how his once prosperous cousins are impoverished by the sanctions regime of the 1990s.—
Lisa Anderson,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Removing or silencing employees who have devoted their lives to demonstrating the value of workplace diversity risks impoverishing the workplace.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
4 Feb. 2025
Verb
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But by 2011, they were exhausted by seven solid years of touring and recording.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
1 Mar. 2025
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In this fractured reality, audiences may be exhausted but every human still needs truth, for stories that inspire, for narratives that unite through identification rather than division.—
Bing Chen,
TIME,
28 Feb. 2025
Verb
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The Clippers lost to the Lakers for a second time this season, squandering chance after chance in a 106-102 defeat at Crypto.com Arena.—
Janis Carr,
Orange County Register,
1 Mar. 2025
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The movie squanders a fun if familiar premise with layers and layers of Catholic lore and enough secondary Bible characters to fill a Dan Brown novel.—
Eddie Mouradian,
Vulture,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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O'Brien then, himself, promised not to waste time — with an unnecessary musical number about not wasting time!—
Lindsay Kimble,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Coaches and consultants waste hours working on their social media content, looking for nuggets of wisdom to share.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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