overactive
Example Sentences
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It’s as if the entire information ecosystem has been jumbled by an overactive imagination.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Koy, the son of a white father and Filipina mother, saw comedy as a way to channel an overactive personality and need to make people laugh into a career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2026
"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
Additional work will also explore how disease-related declines in PIP2 remove this regulatory control, allowing Piezo1 to remain overactive and impair cerebral blood flow.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 2025
My mother used to tell me that I had an overactive imagination; Tom said that, too.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
