overdo
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Because EMS lacks familiar markers for exhaustion—it’s hard to gauge effort with involuntary muscle contractions—people can unwittingly overdo it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 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
Whatever he did, Ranofer feared he might overdo it; then the gods alone knew what trouble would descend upon them both.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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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
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
Here's Mr. Jarvis gets you to help him out in a little society affair, and you overdoes it so bad he can't square himself in a hundred years.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
He would get so excited about workouts that he often overdid it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 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
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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The strategists also contend investor worries around funding so-called neocloud companies such as CoreWeave are overdone.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 22, 2026
But many sell-side analysts, or those working for brokerage firms, believe that weakness is overdone, as they see tremendous upside potential for many stocks in the industry.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 10, 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
But she keeps some of her forehead wrinkles for an “elevated” look that doesn’t feel overdone, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Ifemelu thought most of the decor fussy and overdone, but the post received enthusiastic comments, especially about the decor.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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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
"It was clear he was overdoing it," our eyewitness said.
From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025
Bod wondered if it would be overdoing it if he began to whistle.
From "The Graveyard Book" by Neil Gaiman
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