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overdo

[oh-ver-doo] / ˌoʊ vərˈdu /


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But it is possible for companies to overdo a good thing.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

“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

"I mean, I'm not going to overdo it, but I felt sorry for him because he's under pressure. People make mistakes."

From BBC Oct. 8, 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

It is important not to overdo any particular endeavor.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

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

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

From Washington Times Mar. 6, 2021

It never overdoes the retro affectations, and the lengthy middle section that slowly builds to the appearance of a choir is particularly fantastic.

From The Guardian Oct. 22, 2020

The results are screamingly funny, even in a production that overdoes its spoofing of the play’s melodrama.

From Washington Post Nov. 11, 2019

Here one feels that he overdoes the matter.

From The Last Harvest by John Burroughs

“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

"They told me 'Hey, you overdid it regarding the number of military personnel'," he says.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2023

By bedtime I realize that I way overdid it.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen

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

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

He seems to have overdone it with a couple of young recruits on the ploughed field at home and unknown to him the son of the local magistrate was watching.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

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

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

From Salon May 30, 2024

I hope my fake sigh isn’t overdoing it.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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