as in to splurge
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Recent Examples of overspend
The one con to a three home is definitely the tendency to overspend.
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Jennifer Zhan, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2025
Deals With so many deals under $50 at Amazon, there’s no need to overspend to upgrade your travel style.
—Sophie Dodd, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
And that’s why the Wild were cautious not to overspend in July 1 free agency when their top targets, like Brock Nelson and Brock Boeser, were no longer available.
—Michael Russo, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025
If consumers continue to lose financial ground and the federal government continues to overspend, one day the government may have to choose between helping victims of the latest disaster or paying out Social Security benefits (or other program payments).
—Mike Patton, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
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Be sure not to splurge on the wine for the stew — any good-quality inexpensive dry red wine will work in this dish.—
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From budget-friendly buys to splurge-worthy staples, here are eight of my favorite blazers sure to become your new travel go-tos.—
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Joabe Barbosa, Matthew Plese and Omar Yousaf spent the day riding the entire MARTA rail system in an attempt to complete the full route in roughly three hours.—
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Visitors can spend their entire trip switching off between the two, but be sure to take some time to explore the rocky cove beaches called calas that have made Costa Blanca famous.—
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His first time on air, and another chance to change how viewers consume the country’s most popular sport, was only minutes away.—
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When possible, consume vitamin A through nutritious foods like carrots, sweet potatoes, liver, and eggs instead of dietary supplements to optimize your health.—
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But handing over that much oil to the United States may deplete Venezuela’s own oil reserves.—
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However, from the first charging cycle, lithium deposits directly onto the copper, quickly depleting the electrolyte and creating an unstable solid electrolyte interphase (SEI).—
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As Richardson, a dancer, wrote in her biography, My Life in E-Flat, that area of the Lower East Side was Ukrainian and impoverished at the time, and the house had five families living in it, one per floor.—
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Free trade enriches many investors by a small margin but impoverishes some workers by a large one.—
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The thought of having to tell the story of his illness again, even to herself, exhausts her.—
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Though designed to work alongside humans, Atlas is engineered to operate in conditions that would exhaust most human workers.—
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Cuba has squandered the goodwill of governments across the ideological spectrum.—
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The Longhorns nearly squandered a 15-point lead in the fourth quarter of the Ole Miss game before escaping with a three-point triumph.—
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But waste diversion rates — the amount of garbage being recycled instead of dumped in landfills — remain stubbornly low.—
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So some of that fancy technology is going to waste.—
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“Overspend.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspend. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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