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Recent Examples of overstock
Instead of buying everything brand new, consider shopping open-box and overstock gear at sites like REBEL, especially for travel.
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
This creates the flexibility to adjust procurement, production schedules, and inventory avoiding costly overstock or stockouts, which helps supply chains reduce risks, improve customer satisfaction, and optimize resource allocation across the entire supply chain ecosystem.
—Oyku Ilgar, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
In the past, retailers typically sold overstock items when new models arrived.
—Ken Belson, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The clearance section also has up to 70% off year-round on overstock and end-of-season footwear, marked as final sale.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes.com, 19 May 2025
This creates the flexibility to adjust procurement, production schedules, and inventory avoiding costly overstock or stockouts, which helps supply chains reduce risks, improve customer satisfaction, and optimize resource allocation across the entire supply chain ecosystem.
—Oyku Ilgar, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
In the past, retailers typically sold overstock items when new models arrived.
—Ken Belson, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The clearance section also has up to 70% off year-round on overstock and end-of-season footwear, marked as final sale.
—Alanna Martine Kilkeary, Glamour, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overstock
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In a study in eLife published around a decade ago, UT Southwestern researchers determined that the overproduction of FGF21 improved metabolisms and extended lifespans in mice.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
2 July 2025
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While international appetite for animated films is growing, overproduction could flood the market.—
Jamie Lang,
Variety,
15 May 2025
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An earlier regulation that introduced import quotas faced criticism and revisions for blurring the line between essential supply chain items and surplus imports.—
Mayu Saini,
Sourcing Journal,
14 July 2025
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Non-distillers like KBD and Preservation followed suit, bottling well-aged surplus stocks for markets that wanted old American whiskey.—
Chris Perugini,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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The downside there is that if the infinite Einsteins are acting like lemmings, this seems to increase the chances of any mistakes being given an overabundance of confidence.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 June 2025
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So these companies are basically backing away in an overabundance of caution.—
Anthony Man,
Sun Sentinel,
7 June 2025
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Her book, like her performances, lives in the productive tension between discipline and excess.—
Matthew Clark Davison,
Literary Hub,
11 July 2025
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Once considered a watchdog for the excesses of union leadership, the Teamsters for a Democratic Union mostly now follows O’Brien.—
Steven Zeitchik,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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That’s because project delays and sanctions have the potential to decrease any anticipated level of oversupply.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes.com,
3 July 2025
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Recession fears and oversupply concerns fueled the slide in oil prices, with OPEC+ agreeing to boost production by 410,000 barrels per day in June .—
Darla Mercado, CFP®,
CNBC,
8 May 2025
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“Overstock.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overstock. Accessed 20 Jul. 2025.
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