oversell
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At one point, in 2015, as she was crafting her pitch, Epstein urged her: “dont oversell it, it will kill it.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 15, 2026
“When we are nervous about getting a job we really want, we try to oversell ourselves,” West said.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 23, 2026
In the same way that airlines oversell seats, cruise lines may compensate for cancellations by overselling staterooms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
He was critiqued by the then Mayor David Dinkins for letting inexperienced people plan the event and oversell tickets.
From Salon ● Nov. 20, 2023
But he’s funny as hell up there—sinking to his knees, grasping his head, moaning—and I don’t want to oversell it or anything, but this just may be the most iconic performance of all time.
From "Leah on the Offbeat" by Becky Albertalli
“I believe that is grossly overselling what one should expect from those workouts,” said Cedric X. Bryant, CEO of the American Council on Exercise.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
It keeps well, travels well — and I swear I’m not overselling — it really is extraordinary.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
Kimmelman worries potential overselling of trial benefits isn’t limited to cancer.
From Science Magazine ● May 22, 2024
In the same way that airlines oversell seats, cruise lines may compensate for cancellations by overselling staterooms.
From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2024
Gray had set himself deliberately to the task of selling himself to this gentleman of the press, and, having succeeded, he was enough of a salesman to avoid the fatal error of overselling.
From Flowing Gold by Beach, Rex Ellingwood
More than one analyst thinks it’s oversold and that a reversal is coming with buying from central banks the chief locomotive for any move upwards.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
But “Wedges” oversold the readiness of carbon capture and storage, describing it as “already deployed” industrially.
From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026
Since then, however, signs that AI has been oversold as a world-changing technology have proliferated.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
The federal lawsuit claims the AI company oversold usage allowances on its priciest Claude chatbot tiers and asks for Anthropic to reimburse its customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
“Unfortunately, we’re oversold on this flight,” she says.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
