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Example sentences for: overused
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Mundell's work is so central to that field, so "seminal"--an overused term that really applies here--that on many disputed issues his ideas are the basis for both sides of the debate.
Sometimes when a word is used frequently something else happens too, and a real mess results with a wrong word overused.
These may be overused, and they are certainly noun-verbs; but they most decidedly are not non-verbs, as the LSSU P.R. pundits declared.
The cab of taxicab is from cabriolet , a light passenger cart; and hack is hackney coach , a coach for hire, hackney or hack being a hired horse and by extension anything shoddy and overused, whence hack-word and hackneyed phrases.
The most overused, overworked, hackneyed word in the cliche-ridden vocabulary of pols and their speechwriters, D.C. bureaucrats, think-tank thinkers, pundits and even lowly working reporters condemned to write about legislation and policy making.