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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overinflate . - adjective
Inflated ;exaggerated
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Examples
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* Chanos says demand in China is 'overinflated' - CNBC
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* Chanos says demand in China is 'overinflated' - CNBC
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How many billions of dollars does this man’s former companies have to bilk out of our country in overinflated prices before it offends you?
Think Progress » Senators Demand Dobson & Rove Reveal Details Of “Confidential” Miers Conversation 2005
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The minister said he was yet to receive full details of the severance package for MacKenzie but said estimates of a payout of £500,000 were "overinflated".
The Guardian World News Henry McDonald 2011
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I have spent countless hours reviewing this budget and have specifically proposed cutting areas not directly tied to education such as overinflated energy expense lines and administrative costs.
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The seven-year associate, who said she was told her previous, glowing evaluations might have been "overinflated," composed a blistering e-mail to the partners and fired it off to about 1,000 colleagues.
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I have spent countless hours reviewing this budget and have specifically proposed cutting areas not directly tied to education such as overinflated energy expense lines and administrative costs.
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In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance.
Jennifer Ketcham: The Business of Politics, Sex and Sexual Politics: Goodbye Anthony Weiner Jennifer Ketcham 2011
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In America, politicians are the modern day protagonist, and most of them commit acts of sexual folly due to an overinflated sense self-importance.
Jennifer Ketcham: The Business of Politics, Sex and Sexual Politics: Goodbye Anthony Weiner Jennifer Ketcham 2011
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It's just that, like most of his predecessors in the laugh-at-the-professors genre, Lewis-Kraus doesn't really seem to comprehend just why they're so absurd, so overinflated, so utterly irrelevant.
Literary Study 2009
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