overspends

verb

present tense third-person singular of overspend
as in consumes

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overspends
  1. consumes
  2. spends
  3. depletes
  4. exhausts
  5. splurges
  6. loses
  7. squanders
  8. runs through
Verb
  • Every prompt, retrieval, reasoning step and autonomous agent action consumes tokens that translate directly into cost.
    — Daniel Fallmann, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • Naseej estimates that the UAE consumes roughly 500 million textile items annually and generates about 220,000 metric tons of textile waste, 88 percent of which ends up in landfill.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of consumes
Verb
  • Teng spends time with Mark Perlmutter, a North Carolina surgeon who, like Teng’s other subjects, volunteers in Gaza, treating the many who have been severely injured in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Cuomo spends a lot of the album chewing over a middle-aged indecisiveness that mirrors the journey of his fans, adding a drolly poignant tinge to a warmly familiar sound.
    — Jon Dolan, Rolling Stone, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of spends
Verb
  • Expertise is a stock of answers, and a stock depletes the moment the questions change.
    — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Not like brushing shoulders with Lil Baby and Lil Yachty is a musical death sentence (Veeze is still tearing it up), but for a rapper who specialized in free-flowing street sermons, that slight touch of formalism and structure depletes the vibe.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
Definition of depletes
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  • If a bureaucratic process exhausts whatever time a citizen has available, then benefits are lost or rights are denied.
    — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2026
  • That’s because even ordinary winds – and far worse, storms and earthquakes – cause tall buildings to sway, which ruins people’s concentration, wrecks their mood, and even exhausts them.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 24 July 2026
Definition of exhausts
Verb
  • For years, American families have relished the vast marketplace that global trade offers, finding essentials and splurges online at prices tailored to various budgets.
    — Leif Larson, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
Definition of splurges
Verb
  • By middle age, everyone loses around a third of their amplitude of accommodation.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
  • When the inventory drops below 300 million barrels, the SPR loses its ability to pump oil at rapid speeds to address emergencies, Misra said.
    — Spencer Kimball, CNBC, 15 Aug. 2026
Definition of loses
Verb
  • All are standing aside while Stephen Miller squanders whatever standing the Republican Party had left with veterans, frontline civilians and military families.
    — Shawn VanDiver, The Orlando Sentinel, 7 Aug. 2026
  • Over and over, Levinson squanders opportunities for humanization or interiority in favor of provocation.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 28 May 2026
Definition of squanders
Verb
  • There’s a graciousness that runs through these evenings spent with their friends at dinners and happy hours before meals out, with each moment spent together as much a cause for celebration as the event itself.
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 21 Aug. 2026
  • The journey runs through a customer's most sensitive moments.
    — Lital Marom, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
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“Overspends.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overspends. Accessed 29 Aug. 2026.

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