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overindulge

[oh-ver-in-duhlj] / ˌoʊ vər ɪnˈdʌldʒ /


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“Memory for humans has been so fleeting that when we then get tools to conserve, we overindulge in it,” he said.

From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024

But part of me thought that if I’m not dieting anymore, then I won’t ever have the urge to overindulge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2024

But if you overindulge the rest of the time then you might put on even more weight.

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

The per unit costs of a full turkey dinner with gravy and rolls, fruitcake and eggnog is approximately $9.77 per person: arguably a reasonable price to overindulge with those you love.

From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2023

“It was hard to think. It was hard not to let off steam. It was hard not to overindulge in all the natural activities of life.”

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The character charms as a foil to the humorless Mudge crew, though LaValle slightly overindulges this “soothe the savage beast” trope.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 28, 2023

Whether or not her mom overindulges her, wanting to pick which college she goes to and where she lives hardly makes your daughter a spoiled brat.

From Slate ● Dec. 2, 2020

The series also overindulges in an editing technique in which parallels are drawn by juxtaposition.

From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2013

And Ford, as he's done ever since the early Star Wars movies, overindulges in scowling and growling.

From Time ● Jul. 28, 2011

When he overindulges, Stoltzfus debates: Should I say something now?

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 12, 2011

"New year health goals also sent many of us who overindulged during the festive period on the hunt for sports supplements as we pushed our bodies back into exercise mode."

From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2026

It would have taken so little additional information to make this more inviting that I can’t help feeling the author was overindulged by her editor.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022

Perhaps that’s why, in the season finale, the understandable impulse on the part of the show’s creators to showcase the positive and joyous sides of trans life are overindulged.

From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2021

I overindulged, and I have lost my appetite.

From Salon ● Dec. 26, 2020

Thou art a froward child and hast been overindulged.

From A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The protein boom actually could lead to American consumers overindulging, Ansari said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

It was because, as she said, "I can see more clearly how overindulging wastes my time and poisons my body."

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024

And speaking of making a fresh start: Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz explains why you don’t actually need to “detox” after overindulging during the holidays.

From Slate ● Jan. 2, 2024

As a person who struggled with obesity since childhood, Stearns hated the annual turmoil of obsessing about what she ate — and the guilt of overindulging on a holiday built around food.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

They imagine this wild animal roaming about the savannah on digestive walks after eating a prey that accepted its lot piously, or going for callisthenic runs to stay slim after overindulging.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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