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What does oversell mean?

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  1. (transitive) To agree to sell more of something than one can supply.
  2. (transitive) To be too eager in attempting to sell something.
  3. (transitive) To praise something to excess.
  4. (transitive, obsolete) To sell for a higher price than; to exceed in sale price.
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While future non-lethal technologies may achieve the promises articulated by today's visionaries, the tendency to oversell current capabilities could prove disastrous.
So far the pattern is for the emails to look a lot less suspicious once they're put into context, and for the denialists to oversell what they've found.
Listen here Ghostpoet doesn't oversell his music.
That aside, I think it's way to easy to oversell the crucial importance of coal.
They regularly oversell the number of seats on a given flight.
Do encourage others to experiment with e-learning, but do not oversell it and get too fixated with the technology.

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