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overdo

[oh-ver-doo] / ˌoʊ vərˈdu /


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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

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

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

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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