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overachiever

[oh-ver-uh-chee-ver] / ˌoʊ vər əˈtʃi vər /


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Agoura, under first-year coach Adam Goldstein, is another overachiever.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

Chicken, however, is omnipresent — the quiet overachiever of the protein world, endlessly adaptable and perennially in demand.

From Salon Apr. 26, 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

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

We've even seen how results of teams eventually fall in line with their underlying numbers over the course of this season, with early overachievers Aston Villa and Sunderland.

From BBC May 8, 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

Bella, who’s 53 and solitary in ways that can seem extreme even in a town of bookish overachievers, takes an interest in Christopher despite his abrasive manner.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 12, 2023

They were a classic bunch of overachievers who had become living proof of all the perceived values of white working-class and middle-class America—desire, self-sacrifice, pushing oneself beyond the expected limit.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger



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