overachiever
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Agoura, under first-year coach Adam Goldstein, is another overachiever.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
If the bare minimum is enough for you to be seen and recognized for solid work, there might be no need to become an office overachiever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
Gilbert, who had the same likelihood of inheriting the disease but did not, said losing them turned her into an overachiever who always wanted to fight for the underdog.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
If you’re going to be an overachiever, be one like Schuyler Peters.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
“Every time a leftover freeze hits an overachiever bunch of flowers, humans panic. But the flowers just say, ‘We got this.
From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper
Brighton, currently seventh in the EPL, is consistently one of the biggest overachievers in English soccer and Union Saint-Gilloise, which plays in a 9,000-seat stadium, last year reached the Champions League.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026
Opta's predicted table had Villa finishing 12th and, currently fifth, they are the biggest overachievers of the season ahead of Sunderland.
From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2026
Like any friend group, “Next Gen NYC” is filled with overachievers and underachievers; people who have family money and people who work long hours, scraping by to make their way in the big city.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
Let’s bury the narrative that these Dawgs were a group of overachievers who didn’t belong in the same class as the country’s elite.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn’t the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
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