overindulged

Definition of overindulgednext
past tense of overindulge
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  • Perhaps the latter must be indulged a bit to build a platform for the former—forests sometimes need to burn in order to thrive.
    Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms.
    Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • Piastri made an ambitious lunge on Norris in the penultimate lap, but overdid it and locked his front wheel, nearly crashing into his teammate.
    Sahil Kapur, NBC news, 3 Aug. 2025
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  • Where a victim has deliberately been lured to a potentially dangerous setting and then abandoned, the perpetrator may be suffering from a personality disorder, Hemmings said.
    Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Abused, neglected, abandoned pigs At Willeyville Farm, Houk and, Jones-Willey and other volunteers were recently caring for about 40 pigs, with the goal of finding them adoptive homes.
    Eric Adler April 26, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2026
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“Overindulged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overindulged. Accessed 2 May. 2026.

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