overdo
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Morgan might overdo Fiona’s fiery streak when she sings “Waitin’ For My Dearie,” but the driving impulse is to bring the musical’s out-of-time female characters into the 21st century.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 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
“Which do not overdo it, Pip,” said Joe; “but I shall be happy fur to see you able, sir.”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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“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
Daley notes that Plemons’s comfort inhabiting a sinister character like Gary prevented him from becoming the kind of dramatic actor who overdoes comedy to “sweaty and awkward” effect.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2020
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
"I'll warrant—for, as I often tell him, he makes the idea of one's duty an awful thing to his friends by the extravagance with which he always overdoes it."
From The Outcry by Henry James
The British number one sustained a rib injury in the build-up to Roland Garros after he "overdid it with the preparation".
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
“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
I know I’m in the minority here, but they overdid it with Grogu.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2022
That time she overdid it I was almost to the river before the stinging stopped.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
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De Los editors Fidel Martinez and Suzy Exposito call out overdone Latin music trends and the best albums of 2026 on ‘The De Los Podcast.’
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
They say that the 5% share-price drop that greeted the lender’s third-quarter update was overdone, and that they see little evidence so far of a marked deterioration in asset quality or losses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
Some argue this latest rally might be overdone.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026
I lift my feet carefully, but it seems overdone.
From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson
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She worried this new song—a three-minute romp set to a bounding rhythm in the fashion of Michael Jackson’s “The Way You Make Me Feel”—was overdoing it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Berg’s Guard might overdo it with the vociferousness with which he announces every entrance at the court, but overdoing it is Ionesco’s mode.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Some also say Americans — as in the case of previous health fads — run the risk of overdoing it.
From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026
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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