How to Use overreliance in a Sentence

overreliance

noun
Definition of overreliancenext
  • Gone will be the overreliance on the run game and more emphasis on big plays in the passing game.
    — Paul Myerberg, USA TODAY, 7 Aug. 2023
  • Any tips on how to avoid reverting to overreliance on the pacifier, or ideas on how to wean?
    — The Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2020
  • Watching the 2014 invasion of Ukraine, Lukashenko seemed to decide that an overreliance on the Kremlin could lead Belarus to the same fate.
    — New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The big picture issue deals with the overreliance dilemma.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023
  • There is a good chance that the supreme court would have thrown out the conviction based on overreliance on the similar-act evidence.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 June 2021
  • There was an overreliance on figuring out the passing game which put Auburn in some awkward spots.
    — Matt Cohen | [email protected], al, 17 Sep. 2023
  • There is the overreliance at times on dumping the puck instead of entering with possession.
    — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 5 Sep. 2020
  • That’s because of widespread overreliance on the wrong data to target campaigns.
    — Anil Malhotra, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • China’s overreliance on real estate and debt will take years to unwind.
    — Mickey D. Levy, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • But Bevins warns against overreliance on translation apps.
    — Christopher Elliott, Washington Post, 22 June 2022
  • The goal is to reduce an overreliance on emergency health care, arrests and overdose deaths, while helping these women turn their lives around.
    — Star Tribune, 6 Feb. 2021
  • Other backs kept it up for a while, but their team’s overreliance on one guy was ultimately their undoing.
    — Greg Moore, The Arizona Republic, 6 Aug. 2022
  • Jarmusch’s entry to the genre casts a wide net, from an overreliance on technology to monetary greed.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The study highlights, yet again, that the overreliance on metrics to evaluate researchers, their work and their impact may be inherently flawed and wrong.
    — Lonni Besançon, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2024
  • The Senate report cited an overreliance on foreign sources as a concern.
    — Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • The successive blows of the coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which pushed up fuel and food prices, have exposed Bangladesh’s overreliance on one industry.
    — Saif Hasnat, New York Times, 7 Jan. 2024
  • But ambiance and attention don’t mask a few flaws at Sisters Thai, the most persistent of which is an overreliance on sweeteners.
    — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
  • Any overreliance on foreign inputs in drug supply chains could leave the U.S. open to dire shortages in the event of conflict or natural catastrophe.
    — Richard Vanderford, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2022
  • But given that overreliance on executive creative control is one of the things that have driven the Marvel brand to its current nadir...
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Concerns about the overreliance on Vero cells in this pandemic are not limited to the study of potential therapies.
    — Roxanne Khamsi, Wired, 6 Aug. 2020
  • One of the fundamental problems with China’s health system is its overreliance on hospitals for even the most basic care.
    — David Pierson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The Celtics have had their offensive issues — overreliance on the 3-point shot and defensive rebounding troubles.
    — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
  • Drivers tend to develop an overreliance on these systems even after a short period of use.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 Apr. 2024
  • Drivers tend to develop an overreliance on these systems even after a short period of use.
    — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 31 July 2023
  • For those in need of a refresher, Rodón’s early-inning, overreliance on his fastball is routinely putting the Yankees behind in games, as batters are hunting the pitch.
    — Gary Phillips, New York Daily News, 13 July 2024
  • That person isn’t getting paid less because of their overreliance on caffeine and lack of productivity throughout the day.
    — Elly Desmarchelier, refinery29.com, 16 Jan. 2024
  • And no one is paying enough attention to Evan, who becomes erratic due to his grief and growing overreliance on prescription pills.
    — Jumoke Balogun, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2022
  • The groundwork for the financial problems was also laid decades ago as a result of an overreliance on state redevelopment funds.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Fiennes sees Moses’s obsession with the car, and his inability in the 1920s to foresee an overreliance on the road system, as echoing the development of the tech industry.
    — Sarah Crompton, Vogue, 20 Sep. 2022
  • An Illinois State Board of Education spokesperson said a state team visited the school and confirmed an overreliance on police.
    — Charles Ornstein, ProPublica, 15 Feb. 2023

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