overdo
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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
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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
“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
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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
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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
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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