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overdo

[oh-ver-doo] / ˌoʊ vərˈdu /


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But it is possible for companies to overdo a good thing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

But, Dr Munro cautions that you shouldn't overdo it.

From BBC Nov. 5, 2025

“One of the best things about music’s potential to decrease dementia risk is that it is fun, can be interactive and you can’t overdo it,” Jaffa said.

From MarketWatch Nov. 5, 2025

Either way, avoid going full-liquid; squash carries a lot of water and it’s easy to overdo it.

From Salon Aug. 12, 2025

I think I’m just too wobbly for her nerves, because even Dr. Rashid admits that walking is good for me as long as I don’t overdo it or get stranded.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“What we’re doing here is trying to take mechanisms that fight where your body overdoes it.”

From Washington Times Mar. 6, 2021

It never overdoes the retro affectations, and the lengthy middle section that slowly builds to the appearance of a choir is particularly fantastic.

From The Guardian Oct. 22, 2020

The results are screamingly funny, even in a production that overdoes its spoofing of the play’s melodrama.

From Washington Post Nov. 11, 2019

She can be chilly, needy or brutally blunt, but neither Mr. Aster nor Ms. Collette overdoes her weirdness.

From New York Times Jun. 7, 2018

This is done, altho a large and steadily increasing number of the faculty members feel that it does not do the first and that it overdoes the second.

From On the Firing Line in Education by Ladd, Adoniram Judson

“We underdid it in the great financial crisis, so we overdid it here,” said Patrick Harker, who was president of the Philadelphia Fed for a decade before stepping down last June.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

Here’s what to do if you overdid it.

From MarketWatch Feb. 12, 2026

Carse was lively, asked to bowl bouncers as early as the 15th over of the day, a plan that England overdid.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2024

Laufenberg overdid Konstantin’s temper tantrums in Act I, but found a convincingly pained and broken register for the closing scene.

From New York Times Mar. 8, 2023

“Though if that were true I think I overdid it.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

It followed a busy festive period with her husband Ross and four-year-old twins Max and Freddie, and when she developed a headache she initially thought she had just "overdone it".

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

The euro was lower against the dollar, but could turn higher as U.S. interest-rate rise expectations looked overdone, ING said, adding that it expects it to reach $1.18 by year-end.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

While Thill believes the selloff is overdone, he and his team “acknowledge the concerns around RPO to revenue conversion and the slowdown in cloud apps,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch Jun. 11, 2026

Semiconductor stocks shed $1.3 trillion in market value, amplified by Broadcom’s forecast, but the selloff may be overdone given prior gains.

From Barron's Jun. 6, 2026

Some, of it was formal and trumped-up, overdone.

From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz

Some also say Americans — as in the case of previous health fads — run the risk of overdoing it.

From MarketWatch May 10, 2026

True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 29, 2025

"I don't think he should do sackcloth and ashes, I think that's overdoing it," she told a Sky News podcast.

From BBC Sep. 19, 2024

Whatever the heck he was taking — and I don't know if he was overdoing it necessarily, but I just think it makes a more complete story.

From Salon Jul. 13, 2024

She knew she was overdoing it a bit but something made her keep on.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder




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