How to Use overpromise in a Sentence

overpromise

verb

• And more importantly, wouldn’t this lead to overpromising what AI can do?
  — Emilia David, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2024
• Of course, there's a risk that Rivian itself will overpromise and under-deliver.
  — Matt McFarland, CNN, 26 Sep. 2021
• Crypto skeptics say these efforts overpromise the financial upside and gloss over the risks, propping up an overhyped market rife with scams and hacks.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2022
• But the tendency to overpromise has contributed to the billionaire having become such a divisive figure with many doubters still left to prove wrong.
  — Craig Trudell, Bloomberg.com, 20 Sep. 2020
• The potential for screening to save lives was overpromised, especially for young women.
  — Peggy Orenstein, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023
• Going the extra mile always pays off but be careful not to overpromise and underdeliver.
  — Michael Gabay, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• The current system of dividing water among the states is based on the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which assumed a stable climate and overpromised what the river could provide.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 30 July 2023
• Newsom does have a tendency to overpromise and screw up, restocking his critics’ ammo drawer.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2021
• Because if Peggy’s M.O. is to overpromise and underdeliver, her show’s is the opposite.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2023
• To be sure, disclosure requirements might overpromise how much prospective parents can learn about their future children.
  — Sonia Suter, Quartz, 22 Jan. 2022
• There’s obviously been a focus in the media on startups or tech companies that overpromise or make misleading claims in recent years.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2022
• But in their zeal to outgun each other with AI, companies have overpromised and underdelivered in ways that risk disappointing you and poisoning the public’s faith in AI for years to come.
  — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2023
• Ultimately, the states’ case will hinge on whether Meta overpromised and underdelivered in terms of protections for children—and even if the states lose, new laws being pursued across states and countries could force curbs on features.
  — WIRED, 24 Oct. 2023
• That said, respondents to these surveys may have a tendency to overpromise and underdeliver.
  — Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, 11 Jan. 2021
• Lightfoot's struggles have ignited new questions over whether big city mayors' problems these days mostly lie with flawed officeholders who overpromise or with the job itself.
  — Fox News, 20 May 2021
• People will overpromise and be too altruistic in a very unrealistic way.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 28 Feb. 2024
• In posts showing off his private jet, exotic sports cars, and shiny suits, Cardone had a habit of overpromising and playing down financial liability, according to the suit.
  — Josh Gabert-Doyon, The New Republic, 29 Aug. 2023
• Tech entrepreneurs often overpromise and exaggerate, so prosecutors faced the challenge of proving that Holmes’ boosterism crossed the line into fraud.
  — Marcy Gordon, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2022
• The proposals tend to overpromise and under-deliver, especially when a president from the opposing party occupies the White House.
  — John McCormack, National Review, 24 Feb. 2022
• In this offseason, the Giants overpromised and underdelivered.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Mar. 2023
• Much like flying cars or warp-speed travel, holograms are a kind of technology that was overpromised by science fiction but underdelivered in reality.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 Apr. 2023
• Catching Kelce didn’t overpromise on the happily-ever-after, and that — along with a general absence of the laborious clichés and exaggerated emotional beats that drag out your average matchmaking series — is a source of its appeal.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2023
• The actual result is that too many modern robotics companies overpromise and under-deliver to the end-user or customer who just wants a really good reach truck to navigate a narrow aisle distribution center to ensure on-time shipping of goods.
  — John Hayes, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
• Architects overpromise and contractors underbid, knowing the plans are somewhat notional.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• But some critics at the time actually contended a cautious president-elect, who didn't want to overpromise and underdeliver, established a low bar given the immunization pace set by former President Donald Trump.
  — Naomi Lim, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2021
• Although Biden has been careful not to overpromise, the nation's confidence has been battered by an unrelenting wave of covid-19 variations that have left many Americans emotionally exhausted, dispirited and worried about infections.
  — Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 20 Dec. 2021
• Starting a clean energy trade war, which would likely provoke China into taking retaliatory action, or overpromising on industrial policies is not the solution.
  — Henry Sanderson, Foreign Affairs, 2 Jan. 2024
• Despite these competitive advantages, businesses sometimes overpromise and underdeliver on their diversity pledges.
  — Natasha Miller Williams, Forbes, 3 May 2023
• Combination products often overpromise and underdeliver.
  — Garrett Munce, Town & Country, 25 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024