How to Use oversold in a Sentence

oversold

adjective
  • Masculinity had long been Sante’s oversold thesis, and here came the more honest and understated antithesis.
    Dwight Garner, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2024
  • With the oversold rebound at the end of the week, the weekly results were not that bad.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 16 May 2021
  • And then the gate agent explained the pitiless calculus of the oversold flight: The man had been the last to check in.
    Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Still, some investors thought the tech stocks had been oversold, and bought into the dip.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 15 June 2017
  • This makes an oversold rally likely in the next week or so.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • The Ritz Ybor has cleaned up for the event, which is oversold and absolutely slam-packed.
    Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 23 Apr. 2018
  • The bulls have so far defended the area, with the help of oversold conditions.
    Lawrence McMillan, Forbes, 1 May 2022
  • A police statement said the match appeared to have been oversold.
    Associated Press, Washington Post, 28 May 2017
  • The oversold rally has been strong, as is normally the case in a bear market.
    Lawrence McMillan, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2022
  • Meta’s shares appear oversold and are worth a closer look.
    Dallas News, 18 Sep. 2022
  • A man is dragged off an oversold United flight in Chicago.
    Photographs and Text By Sarah Lyall, New York Times, 9 June 2017
  • The bears remain very much in charge, as the latest oversold rally was a failure.
    Lawrence McMillan, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • Yes, much of Apple's gains came from a rebound in what had been an oversold stock market in late 2018.
    Kevin Kelleher, Fortune, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Now the company is trying to make oversold flights less of a problem.
    Lucinda Shen, Fortune, 12 July 2017
  • The recent rally in the Nasdaq 100 has been referred to as an oversold bounce aided by a drop in bond yields.
    Melissa Karsh, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2021
  • After a large 24% drop over the last ten days, ARWR stock, at levels of $65, now appears oversold, in our view.
    Trefis Team, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2021
  • That peak occurred at the end of an oversold bounce and this reading looks to be more significant.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2023
  • To summarize, the type of sentiment and extremes in new lows and highs, breadth, and oversold readings have occurred at lows in the past.
    Bill Sarubbi, Forbes, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Here’s everything to know about dealing with an oversold flight.
    Ramsey Qubein, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Falling squarely at the height of one of the busiest travel periods of the year, flights were of course oversold, meaning his best option was to wait through the 12-hour delay.
    Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 Jan. 2024
  • Rooker said hindsight shows that tax plan proponents oversold the amount of growth the cuts would generate.
    Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 11 Oct. 2017
  • This move from very oversold to very overbought is a somewhat rare signal that was developed by the late Dr. Martin Zweig.
    Tom Aspray, Forbes, 5 June 2022
  • On occasion, airlines may bump passengers from a trip when the flight is oversold.
    Amanda Maile, ABC News, 29 June 2022
  • The stock is currently trying to bounce from deeply oversold levels but the stock remains in poor technical shape.
    Adam Sarhan, Forbes, 2 June 2022
  • For flights in the U.S., airlines are required to compensate passengers only if they're bumped from a flight that is oversold.
    Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 27 Dec. 2021
  • But this booming area of cancer treatment has critics, who say its promise has been oversold.
    Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 24 Apr. 2018
  • The result—that giving poor mothers money changes their babies’ brains—was oversold.
    Stuart Ritchie, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Today being cooler than Tuesday may have been a bit oversold.
    Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 11 July 2018
  • No, this two-win, mini-run of respectability shouldn’t be oversold.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Even before the release, there were multiple reports that indicated the White House knew the memo had been oversold.
    Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2018

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