overindulge
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He doesn’t resist the melodrama that’s inherent in the material, but he refuses to overindulge it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 18, 2026
“Memory for humans has been so fleeting that when we then get tools to conserve, we overindulge in it,” he said.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024
But if you overindulge the rest of the time then you might put on even more weight.
From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024
The per unit costs of a full turkey dinner with gravy and rolls, fruitcake and eggnog is approximately $9.77 per person: arguably a reasonable price to overindulge with those you love.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023
“It was hard to think. It was hard not to let off steam. It was hard not to overindulge in all the natural activities of life.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
Whether or not her mom overindulges her, wanting to pick which college she goes to and where she lives hardly makes your daughter a spoiled brat.
From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2020
Prose that overindulges in the hip can quickly grow incomprehensible or dated.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2017
The series also overindulges in an editing technique in which parallels are drawn by juxtaposition.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2013
And Ford, as he's done ever since the early Star Wars movies, overindulges in scowling and growling.
From Time ● Jul. 28, 2011
When he overindulges, Stoltzfus debates: Should I say something now?
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2011
"I could control how sweet I wanted it to be through the toppings. It feels healthier overall as it's a dessert I can enjoy without feeling like I've overindulged."
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
Humankind, at last unshackled from the overindulged tedium of the modern world, unburdened by factual overload, could sit back and reap the bounty of being able once again to think.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 28, 2023
Perhaps that’s why, in the season finale, the understandable impulse on the part of the show’s creators to showcase the positive and joyous sides of trans life are overindulged.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2021
I overindulged, and I have lost my appetite.
From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020
Yet if Jim, thus unguided and overindulged, had gone astray in his conduct, Mr. Edwards was not the man to know his mistake and take the blame.
From The Calico Cat by Charles Miner Thompson
As her book explains, after overindulging at the house of a neighbor who had a newborn colt, she then tweeted about it with existential despair: “He has tasted life’s infinite tragedy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025
It was because, as she said, "I can see more clearly how overindulging wastes my time and poisons my body."
From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024
As a person who struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the annual turmoil of obsessing about what she ate — and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
You might try to compensate for feeling deprived as a child by overindulging as an adult.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
They imagine this wild animal roaming about the savannah on digestive walks after eating a prey that accepted its lot piously, or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after overindulging.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
