How to Use oversubscribe in a Sentence

oversubscribe

verb
  • The show is sought out, almost oversubscribed, for the guests that want to be on the show.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Talk like someone who is oversubscribed Language gives you away.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
  • If the fund is oversubscribed, priority will be given to projects prepared to close this year, and projects that produce the greatest number of units.
    — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The deal was oversubscribed, indicating strong demand.
    — Seema Mody, CNBC, 10 Mar. 2026
  • The Philippines had rehab centers, but since the drug war began they’d been chronically oversubscribed.
    — Sean Williams, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
  • The offering was reported to be oversubscribed four times over by big institutional investors.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026
  • However, demand for the shares being sold by nearly two dozen investment banks is so high that the offering is said to be oversubscribed by at least three times by big institutions.
    — Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2026
  • Bloomberg described it as well oversubscribed, with several institutional investors putting in orders for $10 billion worth of shares.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 9 June 2026
  • The offering is already oversubscribed, with multiple institutional investors looking to buy $10 billion or more of the company’s shares.
    — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
  • The company said the round was oversubscribed and and co-led by Overmatch, 8090 Industries, and BlackRock, which is a new investor.
    — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 19 May 2026
  • Meanwhile, Aldar, Abu Dhabi’s largest property developer, priced a $1 billion hybrid note issuance that was oversubscribed.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Hyundai Motors India’s public offering was oversubscribed more than two times, largely by institutional investors, while retail demand was unimpressive.
    — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 29 Aug. 2025
  • The good news is that right now, only the looming IPOs of Anthropic, which will be wildly oversubscribed, and OpenAI, which will be far more tepid, stand in the way of the next run for the market, as the coffers seem to be replenishing.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 21 June 2026
  • Framed as a jobs strategy, the 2025 increase from $330 million annually to $750 million, with other inducements, has already seen a vast increase in applications to a program that had been oversubscribed for a year.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 May 2026
  • Big observatories are oversubscribed, limited by geography and have a huge operational cost, so by encouraging global users to contribute with their telescopes, Unistellar is turning individual observations into usable scientific data.
    — Harry Bennett, Space.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • In comparing Waterwave and MPS, the researchers found that MPS outperforms Waterwave by a small margin when the GPU memory has not oversubscribed computing jobs.
    — Michelle Hampson, IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
  • Brookfield Asset Management raised $20 billion, with Abu Dhabi energy transition fund Altérra as an anchor investor, for green investments, oversubscribed due to surging investor interest in clean power for AI.
    — Kelsey Warner, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025

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