How to Use oversold in a Sentence
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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 -
The oversold and overpacked event took place at the college’s gymnasium, resulting in a stampede.
— Hilda Dzietror, ABC News, 12 June 2024 -
United implemented a policy requiring flight crew to check in an hour before flights to avoid having to displace passengers in events of oversold flights.
— Bysasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 7 July 2024
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