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  • adjective Very highly educated.

Etymologies

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hyper- +‎ educated

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Examples

  • This was one of the most undeniably progressive things about Palin, perhaps most striking in the context of the hypereducated, prosperous segment of the left that was supporting Obama and in which the purported “Opt-out Revolution” was taking place.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • This was one of the most undeniably progressive things about Palin, perhaps most striking in the context of the hypereducated, prosperous segment of the left that was supporting Obama and in which the purported “Opt-out Revolution” was taking place.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • This was one of the most undeniably progressive things about Palin, perhaps most striking in the context of the hypereducated, prosperous segment of the left that was supporting Obama and in which the purported “Opt-out Revolution” was taking place.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • This was one of the most undeniably progressive things about Palin, perhaps most striking in the context of the hypereducated, prosperous segment of the left that was supporting Obama and in which the purported “Opt-out Revolution” was taking place.

    Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

  • The article grabs your attention from the outset — "There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to freak out a parent, especially one of the hypereducated, ecoconscious ilk" — and goes on to discuss the anxiety many of us feel when it comes to our children and the real and perhaps not-so-real health concerns we read about and hear of in today's connected world. —

    Worthwhile read: "The Toxic Paradox" 2009

  • The article grabs your attention from the outset—"There is nothing like the suggestion of a cancer risk to freak out a parent, especially one of the hypereducated, ecoconscious ilk"—and goes on to discuss the anxiety many of us feel when it comes to our children and the real and perhaps not-so-real health concerns we read about and hear of in today's connected world.

    Worthwhile read: "The Toxic Paradox" 2009

  • But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

    Dubliners 2003

  • He would say, alluding to Aunt Kate and Aunt Julia: "Ladies and Gentlemen, the generation which is now on the wane among us may have had its faults but for my part I think it had certain qualities of hospitality, of humour, of humanity, which the new and very serious and hypereducated generation that is growing up around us seems to me to lack."

    Dubliners James Joyce 1911

  • I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hypereducated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

    Dubliners James Joyce 1911

  • By Jessica Grose, Slate. comFebruary 15, 2010 In Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, Lori Gottlieb argues that if a hypereducated, ambitious woman is still single

    WN.com - Articles related to Gay love: When a husband or wife comes out 2010

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