overdo
Example Sentences
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“When you’re at the semifinals of a tournament, there’s not really underdogs, overdogs, whatever you want to call it,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2021
Green also reached overdogs like Maury Povich and Regis & Kathie Lee .
From Washington Post • May 8, 2018
Clark and Darden are well-meaning overdogs, ruined by a failure to reckon with the larger backdrop of injustice against which their just cause took place.
From Slate • Jan. 29, 2016
He felt for the underdog, as he never tired of telling us, but whenever the overdogs began to howl, he obediently rushed back toward the right.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today--The Cooler and the Ocean's Eleven remake notwithstanding--we more often root for the overdogs, the entrepreneurs and the security chiefs who use military-grade surveillance technology to protect their shekels from card counters and scammers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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