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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
oversell .
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Examples
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I think the review oversells "A History of Violence".
Film Maxine 2009
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Mr. Laffer also oversells the degree to which 9-9-9 would lower marginal tax rates.
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If Obama oversells the stimulus and the voter and his/her neighbor lose their jobs in December, they might feel lied to. bob in fla Says:
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De Soto oversells the idea that titling of land will solve all the problems.
Capital vs. Institutions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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When I mentioned that on Wall Street he has a reputation as someone who oversells his record, he was downright modest.
Trump and the Art of the Spiel David Weidner 2011
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The English subtitle to this book oversells it as "A Wicked Bestiary", whereas in America it's merely "A Modest Bestiary" – suggesting that Sedaris knows what place it'll finally hold in his otherwise considerable collected works.
Squirrel Seeks Chipmunk: A Wicked Bestiary by David Sedaris – review Toby Litt 2010
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To convey in Chinese that a situation is paradoxical (zixiang maodun), for instance, is to invoke a story about an arms dealer who oversells his wares.
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I haven't supported his views on Iran, think he oversells "the surge" in Iraq -- but reasonable people can debate these important matters in a civil and respectful way as I have tried to do with the senator on many fronts for years.
Steve Clemons: On Gay Bullying and DADT: Cindy McCain vs. John McCain Steve Clemons 2010
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In a post on the company's policy blog, the assistant vice president for Internet and technology issues, Link Hoewing, argues that my column oversells the virtues of dial-up and DSL competition and undersells people's current choices in broadband service.
News flash: Verizon thinks the Internet-access market is just fine 2010
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I haven't supported his views on Iran, think he oversells "the surge" in Iraq -- but reasonable people can debate these important matters in a civil and respectful way as I have tried to do with the senator on many fronts for years.
Steve Clemons: On Gay Bullying and DADT: Cindy McCain vs. John McCain Steve Clemons 2010
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