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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

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

“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 mean, I'm not going to overdo it, but I felt sorry for him because he's under pressure. People make mistakes."

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 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

If anything, the author overdoes it, parsing too many chronologies and splitting too many hairs with previous Wright biographers.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2019

“The movie succeeds because it at once restrains its sticky, gooey good cheer and wildly overdoes it,” the critic A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018

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 Sue Petigru Bowen

“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

The 52-year-old believes she started to became ill in 2018 because she "overdid it and burnt the candle at both ends".

From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2023

“Just overdid it a little bit today,” he said in a television interview April 10.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 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

Markets are pricing in an additional 160 basis points of Fed rate hiking over the next 12 months, but BlackRock sees that move as overdone.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

One clue that the precipitous drop might be getting overdone: The company has continued to report double-digit year-over-year revenue growth.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

Even the serious moments had hints of comedy, yet the bits were never overdone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

Even the rain is overdone, I can’t take it seriously.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

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

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

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

On the other hand, I am not sure if Parker Posey is trying to sound crazy on purpose because her character is heavily medicated, or if she’s just really overdoing that drawl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 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

I suggest maybe that’s why he’s overdoing it.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold


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