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- verb Present participle of
overpromise .
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Examples
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Given the drug industry's recent problems with what one might generously call overpromising
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But Liddell also tempered his remarks, saying GM has been guilty of "overpromising" on its financial performance previously.
chicagotribune.com - 2010
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Elected leaders late last year apologized to voters for, as Ms. Jordan said, "overpromising" the transportation plan tied to the surtax.
Miami Today News 2009
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And he's not exactly overpromising: I do consider it the end of an era, not necessarily the beginning of a new era. ...
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Given its declining credibility in the region overpromising/underperforming the administration has regrettably little maneuvering room despite Obama's personal popularity and the resonation of his message of "hope" aimed at the very youth who are taking to the streets.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg: America's Fragile Arab Dominoes: If No Back Bench Does Washington Have Any Backbone? Amb. Marc Ginsberg 2011
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In Illinois, labor and management, Republicans and Democrats, have been complicit over the years in overpromising wages and benefits.
A decisive moment: Public employee unions or the common good? 2011
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If you want to say the state is overpromising what it can deliver to employees when they retire, why, even I think that you areright.
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A Pervasive Problem MS. DAGHER: Are nonprofits overpromising to donors when it comes to not using money for overhead?
The 'Third Rail' of Nonprofits: Overhead Veronica Dagher 2011
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If you want to say the state is overpromising what it can deliver to employees when they retire, why, even I think that you are right.
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In her account, Petraeus also faults McChrystal for overpromising and underdelivering in places like Taliban-riddled Marjah in the south, producing months of embarrassing headlines that hurt the war effort back in Washington.
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