How to Use overreliance in a Sentence

overreliance

noun

• Gone will be the overreliance on the run game and more emphasis on big plays in the passing game.
  — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
• Any tips on how to avoid reverting to overreliance on the pacifier, or ideas on how to wean?
  — The Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2020
• Watching the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, Lukashenko seemed to decide that an overreliance on the Kremlin could lead Belarus to the same fate.
  — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
• The big picture issue deals with the overreliance dilemma.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
• There is a good chance that the supreme court would have thrown out the conviction based on overreliance on the similar-act evidence.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 June 2021
• There was an overreliance on figuring out the passing game which put Auburn in some awkward spots.
  — Matt Cohen | [e-mail], al, 17 Sep. 2023
• There is the overreliance at times on dumping the puck instead of entering with possession.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
• That’s because of widespread overreliance on the wrong data to target campaigns.
  — Anil Malhotra, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
• China’s overreliance on real estate and debt will take years to unwind.
  — Mickey D. Levy, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
• But Bevins warns against overreliance on translation apps.
  — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
• The goal is to reduce an overreliance on emergency health care, arrests and overdose deaths, while helping these women turn their lives around.
  — Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
• Other backs kept it up for a while, but their team’s overreliance on one guy was ultimately their undoing.
  — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2022
• Jarmusch’s entry to the genre casts a wide net, from an overreliance on technology to monetary greed.
  — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
• The Senate report cited an overreliance on foreign sources as a concern.
  — Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
• The successive blows of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which pushed up fuel and food prices, have exposed Bangladesh’s overreliance on one industry.
  — Saif Hasnat, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
• But ambiance and attention don’t mask a few flaws at Sisters Thai, the most persistent of which is an overreliance on sweeteners.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• Any overreliance on foreign inputs in drug supply chains could leave the U.S. open to dire shortages in the event of conflict or natural catastrophe.
  — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
• But given that overreliance on executive creative control is one of the things that have driven the Marvel brand to its current nadir...
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
• Concerns about the overreliance on Vero cells in this pandemic are not limited to the study of potential therapies.
  — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
• One of the fundamental problems with China’s health system is its overreliance on hospitals for even the most basic care.
  — David Pierson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• The Celtics have had their offensive issues — overreliance on the 3-point shot and defensive rebounding troubles.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
• Drivers tend to develop an overreliance on these systems even after a short period of use.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 31 July 2023
• Drivers tend to develop an overreliance on these systems even after a short period of use.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
• For those in need of a refresher, Rodón’s early-inning, overreliance on his fastball is routinely putting the Yankees behind in games, as batters are hunting the pitch.
  — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
• And no one is paying enough attention to Evan, who becomes erratic due to his grief and growing overreliance on prescription pills.
  — Jumoke Balogun, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
• The groundwork for the financial problems was also laid decades ago as a result of an overreliance on state redevelopment funds.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
• Fiennes sees Moses’s obsession with the car, and his inability in the 1920s to foresee an overreliance on the road system, as echoing the development of the tech industry.
  — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2022
• An Illinois State Board of Education spokesperson said a state team visited the school and confirmed an overreliance on police.
  — Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 15 Feb. 2023
• The risk lies in overreliance on automation without proper checks.
  — Mehdi Daoudi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• Merchants have been shopping the market for brand names to augment what’s been an overreliance on proprietary labels, and the assortment now displays a better balance of styles.
  — David Moin, WWD, 31 July 2024

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024