overwrought
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More often, it’s because everyone in the child’s social circle is using a smartphone to access social media, and children tell their parents—no doubt in overwrought terms—that being left out would be social suicide.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2026
The year 2025 was more tumultuous than any silly football game and its accompanying overwrought metaphors.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2025
The fears for Blue Owl are overwrought, however, says Raymond James analyst Wilma Burdis.
From Barron's • Dec. 10, 2025
She said Ruben had been able to explain this for many years as the children being "overwrought by enjoyment", until his stepson had concerns in July 2025.
From BBC • Nov. 14, 2025
They don’t like the way he seems, worrying to Theo that Vincent is “exaggerated and overwrought, quoting at random from the Bible....It is a bitter, bitter shame.”
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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