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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overdramatize .
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Examples
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"overdramatized" health benefits are putting pressure on fish stocks, they claim.
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"overdramatized" health benefits are putting pressure on fish stocks, they claim.
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Yes it is dangerous but the story sounded overdramatized to me.
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Yes it is dangerous but the story sounded overdramatized to me.
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Even if that was wildly overdramatized, anytime a valuable asset is owned by a political entity there will be vicious competition to get favors from that entity.
Robert Fogel Interview, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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While it's well-known that reality shows are partially scripted, overdramatized and heavily edited, it's the pretence that the actions these folks are taking are real which drives out any enjoyment from watching them.
Kathy Buckworth: The Brady Bunch Was My Reality TV Kathy Buckworth 2011
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Polite discourse, rational expression of opinion, and intelligent discussion of issues is what democracy is supposed to be, not the pathetic, overdramatized, 24-hour political theater we have been exposed to over the last couple of decades.
Think Progress » The Party of Lincoln falls short on civil rights. 2010
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According to the government, critics have overdramatized the changes the Kirchners made to the index.
Economists Quake as Argentina Votes Matt Moffett 2011
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I despise most Reality TV for overdramatized piffle but I'd much rather get that feeling that I followed a trekker through the entire stage of their journey rather than the oddly disjointed, and slightly surreal feeling of 'I climbed Everest in 40 minutes'.
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A senior White House official says the president stands behind Mr. Holder, and that the 9/11 trial decision has become "overdramatized and oversimplified."
In Holder's Woes, a Déjà Vu Evan Perez 2010
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