How to Use overproduce in a Sentence

overproduce

verb
Definition of overproducenext
  • These skin types tend to overproduce sebum, which leads to clogged pores and breakouts.
    — Lacey Muinos, Health, 4 Aug. 2023
  • As Central Europe warms up, beech and oak trees overproduce seeds and farmers are growing more crops that the wild pigs eat....
    — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 20 Aug. 2010
  • Too much nitrogen can cause the plant to overproduce greenery at the expense of flowers.
    — oregonlive, 5 Aug. 2023
  • If a donor is found from Sunday’s event, the donor eventually would be given shots to overproduce blood stem cells.
    — Dallas News, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Either barebones and shot on the fly or overproduced with way too many digital edits.
    — Alphonse Pierre, Pitchfork, 22 Mar. 2024
  • What’s more, the dryness triggers your sebaceous glands to overproduce oil, which may prompt a vicious cycle of washing your hair more to get rid of the greasiness.
    — Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
  • The ‘movements not seasons’ method is to ensure the brand does not overproduce and enables sustainable business growth.
    — Karin Eldor, Forbes, 1 June 2021
  • Also, the format is non-traditional and the series isn’t overproduced or in a studio, so the conversations are sometimes on the cuff and in the moment.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Over time, some areas of your skin may develop clumps of melanin or may overproduce that pigment, resulting in a sun spot, the Mayo Clinic explains.
    — Sarah Jacoby, SELF, 31 July 2020
  • Be sure to create genuine and authentic context and avoid the tendency to overproduce or be too buttoned up.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2021
  • Given the economic strife caused by sanctions, Russia is in no hurry to overproduce.
    — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
  • Her body began overproducing skin cells that caused her nails to pit – a condition that occurs when the surrounding skin thickens and lifts fingernails and toenails out of the nail beds.
    — Essence, 9 Jan. 2024
  • In a small percentage of patients, cancer, leukemia or a rare inflammatory disease may drive bone marrow to overproduce this type of cells.
    — Claire Panosian Dunavan, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2018
  • If receptors are not working properly, the liver will overproduce cholesterol and dump it into the bloodstream.
    — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 8 Nov. 2022
  • There really is no ability to overproduce housing in a real way with the current dynamics of the U.S. economy and job markets.
    — Joshua Pollard, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The company purchases products from around the world that designers overproduce, or other stores overbuy, and passes on the savings to customers.
    — Bob Sandrick, cleveland, 15 Feb. 2021
  • Manufacturers overproduce items from the get-go, which creates plenty of textile waste.
    — Rachel Feltman and Jordan Blok, Popular Science, 4 Dec. 2020
  • And the argument here is the Biden administration says that China is essentially overproducing a number of goods, among those steel.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Leukemia patients, including those with ALL, overproduce immature/abnormal white blood cells, which ends up interfering with the production of healthy white blood cells as well as red blood cells and platelets.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • This is unlike any other market that any of us lumber traders have ever experienced, where mills always had the capacity to just overproduce.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Jan. 2022
  • Cancer cells overproduce certain kinds of proteins and amino acids fluoresce in the UV spectrum when irradiated.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Nov. 2023
  • Because lymphoma patients overproduce cancerous lymphocytes, there's less room in the bone marrow to produce other healthy cells including red blood cells.
    — Barbara Brody, Health.com, 13 Sep. 2021
  • Our immune system is basically one big balancing act---produce just enough cells to prevent infection but don’t overproduce to the point of unleashing an attack on our bodies.
    — Becky Lang, Discover Magazine, 6 Mar. 2013
  • Oftentimes, brands will overproduce products, not wanting to risk the potential of underproducing and not being able to reach selling potential.
    — Aemilia Madden, refinery29.com, 10 May 2022
  • The plan, in other words, is to situate Bitcoin mining centers in places where renewable energy farms overproduce electricity during times of low demand, and soak up that excess power for mining.
    — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Microbes on Mars may have degraded the planet’s atmosphere by overproducing greenhouse gases.
    — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 21 Jan. 2023
  • Hyperthyroidism medications can clear up symptoms within a few weeks by keeping your thyroid from overproducing hormones.
    — Women's Health, 23 Aug. 2023
  • The context for the tariffs was a longstanding policy by Chinese manufacturers to overproduce these metals, depressing world prices and giving China a majority share of world production.
    — Nicholas Phillips, National Review, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Under traditional approaches, Forbes estimates that the fashion industry overproduces products by about 30-40% each season.
    — Evan Arroyo, The Arizona Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
  • This information sharing upstream allows sellers to better anticipate trends, plan production, and avoid overproducing unwanted items.
    — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023

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