overdo
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It’s a lot of my new journey, but I wanted to make sure I didn’t overdo it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026
They weren’t to overdo it at their holiday dinner table.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
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
I should be afraid she might overdo, if I didn’t know her ‘moral fit’ wouldn’t last long.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
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The performances are engaging, though Bates overdoes the overbearing nature of her voluble character: opinionated, judgmental and not hesitant to deliver dig after dig at Chrissie.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 13, 2023
“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
He can be charged with no shortcomings, for he overdoes all he undertakes.
From The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters by Bowen, Sue Petigru
“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
Mavididi then rather overdid the celebration, upsetting the locals by sitting on the front wall of the home Tilton Road End, looking smug.
From BBC ● Dec. 18, 2023
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
If anything, I generally overdid things, especially when it came to preparing for a big moment or test, but this one I’d let slip by.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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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
Still, some analysts caution that recent price moves may be overdone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
Some argue this latest rally might be overdone.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
After leading several markets to record highs this year, technology firms are facing selling pressure on concerns that the eye-watering sums pumped into artificial intelligence may have been overdone and stock valuations are too high.
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
Since this morning, she’s been checking the sky as if it were the turkey in the oven that might get overdone.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
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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
"It was clear he was overdoing it," our eyewitness said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
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
I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
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