as in exaggerated
extended beyond normal or realistic bounds
overblown predictions of financial calamity after the company had one bad quarter
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If concerns about catastrophic risks are overblown, then shifting focus to immediate challenges could help prevent real harms while fostering innovation and distributing AI’s benefits globally.
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Harry Booth / Paris, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Bottom line Jim Cramer agreed with Tuesday’s Wall Street research and said that Monday’s selloff in BlackRock shares was overblown.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
That said, there are about as many papers that have found that its benefits might be overblown, even contradicting the heart health studies and cancer findings.
—New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2025
Navarro argued that those concerns are overblown, pointing, as others in Trump’s orbit have, to the record from his first administration.
—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Feb. 2025
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Harry Booth / Paris, TIME, 6 Feb. 2025
Bottom line Jim Cramer agreed with Tuesday’s Wall Street research and said that Monday’s selloff in BlackRock shares was overblown.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2025
That said, there are about as many papers that have found that its benefits might be overblown, even contradicting the heart health studies and cancer findings.
—New Atlas, 4 Feb. 2025
Navarro argued that those concerns are overblown, pointing, as others in Trump’s orbit have, to the record from his first administration.
—Haisten Willis, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 4 Feb. 2025
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“Overblown.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overblown. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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