overdo

As with past movie trends from superheroes to Westerns, the risk is that Hollywood will overdo it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

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

“We have this tendency to overdo it,” Russell said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2025

Archie didn’t want to overdo it by acting too eager for Obie’s company and whatever he had to say.

From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier

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

No one overdoes it, even when the action gets baroque, and their restraint is matched by Haigh’s.

From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 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

Suddenly he raised his head; his beady eyes glittered; he hurried greedily toward the crumbs, squawking hoarsely, clucking wildly, like a crude fellow who aspires to be a gallant and overdoes the part.

From Frank of Freedom Hill by Derieux, Samuel A. (Samuel Arthur)

“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

“But I overdid it … seven minutes, don’t do it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

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

“I thought perhaps I overdid it when I stuck out my tongue.”

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

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

But if the glamour of Ernst’s life is overdone, the novel is so action-packed that you hardly have time to roll your eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

While Thill believes the selloff is overdone, he and his team “acknowledge the concerns around RPO to revenue conversion and the slowdown in cloud apps,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

The outlook revived concerns that the eye-watering sums that companies have invested in the AI sector may have been overdone and that valuations are overblown.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

The sharp smell of overdone meat starting to stink up the room.

From "X: A Novel" by Ilyasah Shabazz

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

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

But, after they narrowly avoided an embarrassing defeat at Champions League minnows Qarabag, there were those questioning whether they might be overdoing the changes.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

Maybe you think I’m overdoing it, and maybe I am.

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

She knew she was overdoing it a bit but something made her keep on.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder