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For a man with a mission, it never hurts to have an overqualified band.

"You sound overqualified," one dealer said when she read back what he had dictated to her.

Quite a prominent scientist in his day, now an overqualified paperweight.

Or are you hiring the most overqualified construction workers in history, and paying them to gain the experience your average contractor has?

You're the most overqualified applicants I've ever seen.

"Overqualified" can also be used to describe a resistance to new technologies, or a pompous approach.

It was, he said, "a testament to the bad economy that so many overqualified people would come in for one lousy programming trainee position."

Overqualified candidates like Bradley speak above the din of today's sound-bite-driven races.

An example of too low of arousal state is an overqualified worker performing repetitive jobs.

"I've applied to places like Starbucks, but they see me as overqualified or say I don't have a retail background," she said.

Talk about overqualified.

Mets executives denied stuffing the Cyclones' roster with overqualified players to produce some good news in an otherwise worthless season.

We will keep it in our file and should any openings . . ." (or the tooth fairy) Overqualified.

"Overqualified!"

Audrey Bernhardt of East Hills described herself as an unemployed lawyer and teacher and overqualified knitter.

The alternative might be an overqualified hedging such as chokes our literary quarterlies; directness, even when it is weird, is usually more interesting.

Other frescoes, such as "The Uprising," in which a woman holding a baby protects a worker from a soldier's thrusting sword, are overqualified propaganda posters.

The letters were collected into a novel and published as Overqualified by ECW Press in 2009.

Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft called him an overqualified man in one of his letters.

But few of the songs are more than genre pieces, presenting Mr. Rosas as an overqualified leader of a bar band.

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Our marvelous, vastly overqualified tester had slightly different habits: she did more things with the keyboard (and actually rigorously tested the interface using every possible combination of inputs).

He became a delivery boy until he was sixteen, when he was deemed overqualified (due to his J1 and J2 certificates) to become an engineer.

They can advertise interesting, but actually unavailable, jobs to build up a staff list, the site warns, and can shunt overqualified clients off to jobs that are beneath them.