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overdo

[oh-ver-doo] / ˌoʊ vərˈdu /


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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

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

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025

“Don’t let your feelings make you too ambitious on this one, Kate. If you overdo the dose, you might hurt somebody.”

From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart

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

He beats Shubman’s outside edge with his first offering, but overdoes his second and gets driven down the ground for four.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 19, 2021

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

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021

She overdoes her offer of a nightcap to an increasingly angry Frankenstein, first proffering brandy, then “varm milk . . . perhaps?” and, finally, the chocolate malted kid’s drink Ovaltine.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2021

She overdoes it; you will turn her energy into other channels.

From The Danger Mark by A. B. Wenzell

“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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2022

By bedtime I realize that I way overdid it.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

Chocolate-industry executives have been saying the recent price jump is overdone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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

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

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

Tina says there's also a fine line between refreshing and overdoing it as "very aggressive ice exposure can irritate sensitive skin or trigger rosacea, so keep it gentle".

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

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

It’s almost another hour of adjustments and testing and warnings about not overdoing it, watching for hot spots, and avoiding stump blisters at all cost before I walk out of there.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen




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