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Recent Examples of oversensitive
The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.
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Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.
—Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
My Feelings’ is that the entire movie turns into a satire of what has become our fetishistically supportive and oversensitive therapeutic culture of positivity.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2023
Can people be oversensitive?
—Clay Cane, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
Automated software looks for moving blips of light, checks them against possible false positives like subatomic particles from space zapping the detector, oversensitive pixels, and the like.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
Suzanne Cryer as the oversensitive poet and Cedric Yarbrough as the professor who refuses to indulge her are amusing, and so is Shannon DeVido as a film professor whose response to Saunders is a hoot.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Students are often accused of being oversensitive, but Professor Wax’s colleagues have shared their own uncomfortable moments with her in public forums.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Alden Ehrenreich, as Liotta’s son, plays it all as tongue-in-cheek weepy and oversensitive.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
These young ideas rarely do — and the invaluable lesson that students glean from that realization will be lost forever if administrators cut them off at the knees by continuing to appease oversensitive cry-bullies whose antics threaten these vital sandboxes.
—Brian Anderson, National Review, 12 Sep. 2020
My Feelings’ is that the entire movie turns into a satire of what has become our fetishistically supportive and oversensitive therapeutic culture of positivity.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 May 2023
Can people be oversensitive?
—Clay Cane, CNN, 5 Apr. 2023
Automated software looks for moving blips of light, checks them against possible false positives like subatomic particles from space zapping the detector, oversensitive pixels, and the like.
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 31 Mar. 2023
Suzanne Cryer as the oversensitive poet and Cedric Yarbrough as the professor who refuses to indulge her are amusing, and so is Shannon DeVido as a film professor whose response to Saunders is a hoot.
—Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Mar. 2023
Students are often accused of being oversensitive, but Professor Wax’s colleagues have shared their own uncomfortable moments with her in public forums.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
Alden Ehrenreich, as Liotta’s son, plays it all as tongue-in-cheek weepy and oversensitive.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversensitive
Adjective
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An allergy occurs when the body recognizes safe substances as dangerous, causing a hypersensitive immune reaction.—
Daniel More,
Verywell Health,
17 Jan. 2025
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This new immunity might also have had a downside in the form of allergies that come with a hypersensitive immune system.—
Sara Novak,
Discover Magazine,
15 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.—
Julia Ries,
SELF,
9 Sep. 2024
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The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views.—
James Mackintosh,
WSJ,
22 June 2021
Adjective
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Allergies acting up: Homeowners who are sensitive to dust, pollen, or animal hair may notice their allergies acting up before anything else.—
Daley Quinn,
Southern Living,
18 Jan. 2025
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During the 2024 presidential campaign, as Musk embraced the Republican Party and then Trump, his pro-China views brought him into conflict with parts of the MAGA coalition, including on the sensitive topic of immigration.—
John Hyatt,
Forbes,
18 Jan. 2025
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“Oversensitive.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversensitive. Accessed 1 Feb. 2025.
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