How to Use overreliance in a Sentence

overreliance

noun
  • There will be five years of overreliance.
    — Joann Yamani, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Some may say this team has an overreliance on 3s, and that may be fair.
    — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The overreliance on prospects to build out the bench is also a thing of the past.
    — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 21 Oct. 2025
  • There remains an overreliance on Bowen to be the saviour.
    — Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Still, overreliance presents risk.
    — Hamid Kohan, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The overreliance on the horse race poll has narrowed the field’s impact.
    — Clifford Young, The Conversation, 7 Mar. 2025
  • 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
  • These tools can help with preparation, but overreliance on them can backfire.
    — Murugan Anandarajan, The Conversation, 17 June 2025
  • Any tips on how to avoid reverting to overreliance on the pacifier, or ideas on how to wean?
    — The Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2020
  • But some question the field’s overreliance on social media data in the first place.
    — Bykai Kupferschmidt, science.org, 31 Oct. 2024
  • One of the biggest risks is overreliance—treating these tools as foolproof systems rather than guides.
    — Wayne Liang, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • China’s overreliance on real estate and debt will take years to unwind.
    — Mickey D. Levy, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2023
  • That, in turn, led to an overreliance on other teams to take away points and finish the job the Titans couldn’t.
    — Jen Karmarkar, Oc Register, 11 Apr. 2025
  • There has been an overreliance on individual moments or set pieces to win games.
    — Jessy Parker Humphreys, The Athletic, 13 July 2024
  • 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 are no easy answers, and there are a lot of fears about overreliance, loss of learning and even the value of a college degree.
    — Kristi Girdharry, The Conversation, 16 Mar. 2026
  • What’s more dangerous is how quietly that overreliance creeps in.
    — Jason Bahnak, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In fact, the doctor shortage has led to unwise remedies such as overreliance on PAs.
    — Betsy McCaughey, Boston Herald, 8 Feb. 2026
  • Another pattern that shows up quickly is overreliance on a handful of people.
    — Shaun Fisher, Forbes.com, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The genre’s overreliance on pulpy paperbacks is turning into a problem.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • There were also fierce debates about everything from the glut of preshow commercials to an overreliance on franchise fare.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The Senate report cited an overreliance on foreign sources as a concern.
    — Tom Murphy, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Jarmusch’s entry to the genre casts a wide net, from an overreliance on technology to monetary greed.
    — Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The risk lies in overreliance on automation without proper checks.
    — Mehdi Daoudi, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024

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