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overbalanced

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verb

past tense of overbalance
as in outweighed
to be greater in importance than my determination to finish the job overbalanced my exhaustion

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Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overbalanced
Adjective
  • The challenge is not the technology itself but rather unequal access to it.
    Sam Sammane, Forbes.com, 9 Apr. 2025
  • But despite the canal’s financial success, Panama today is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America.
    Whitney Eulich, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Those small changes will be outweighed by individual companies’ demand and supply changes.
    Bill Conerly, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The good far outweighed the bad.
    Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 29 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • Months earlier, Charles Vallow had told police that his wife was threatening to kill him, describing her behavior as increasingly unbalanced.
    Bill Chappell, NPR, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Perhaps even more than that, PSG — long dismissed and derided as a hopelessly unbalanced gaggle of individual superstars — have become a team, widely respected for the remarkable industriousness of their football and the humble, unshowy brilliance of their young players.
    Tom Williams, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Balint introduced the measure on Trans Day of Visibility, recognized annually on March 31 to celebrate the lives and contributions of trans people and draw attention to disproportionate discrimination faced by the community.
    Brooke Migdon, The Hill, 31 Mar. 2025
  • But declining disproportionate treatment is not intended to kill the patient, although death is the foreseeable outcome.
    Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Despite high trade deficits, the U.S. economy is strong Trump and his advisers point to America’s lopsided trade numbers—year after year of huge deficits—as proof of foreigners’ perfidy.
    Time, Time, 9 Apr. 2025
  • House was on the way to a lopsided victory in Tuesday’s consolidated election over Casundra Hopson-Jordan.
    Richard Requena, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • The penial fold, however, is asymmetrical, earning the species its name, researchers said.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 9 Apr. 2025
  • For the occasion, the actress changed into a classic black dress with a V-neckline and an asymmetrical, off-the-shoulder design on one side.
    Renan Botelho, Footwear News, 4 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Symptoms of the condition can include shortness of breath, a sudden drop in blood pressure, an abnormal heart rate, and bleeding from the uterus, C-section, or IV sites.
    Korin Miller, SELF, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Tau tangles are also implicated in other neurological diseases such as frontal lobe dementia, or FTD, and Lewy body dementia in which abnormal clumps of a protein called alpha-synuclein accumulate in the brain’s neurons.
    Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Overbalanced.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbalanced. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.

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