overdo

It’s a lot of my new journey, but I wanted to make sure I didn’t overdo it.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

They weren’t to overdo it at their holiday dinner table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 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

"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

It is important not to overdo any particular endeavor.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Lomakin occasionally overdoes Lieutenant Kelly’s wide-eyed bungling, but Carpenter preens suitably in Confederate uniform.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 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

Arbery overdoes the symbolism – as with a noisily explosive generator that echoes the breaking string in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019

Where he overdoes his emphasis or refinement, can only be decided by differing tastes. 

From George Borrow The Man and His Books by Thomas, Edward

The British number one sustained a rib injury in the build-up to Roland Garros after he "overdid it with the preparation".

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

“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

Laufenberg overdid Konstantin’s temper tantrums in Act I, but found a convincingly pained and broken register for the closing scene.

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2023

Like a convert to a new religion, I overdid it at first.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

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

The euro was lower against the dollar, but could turn higher as U.S. interest-rate rise expectations looked overdone, ING said, adding that it expects it to reach $1.18 by year-end.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

Some argue this latest rally might be overdone.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 19, 2026

As far back as March, analysts were racing to Accenture’s defense, saying the selloff was overdone.

From Barron's ● Jun. 17, 2026

She wanted to look pretty, but not overdone.

From "Far from the Tree" by Robin Benway

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

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

There are still plenty of American things Scots wouldn’t be caught dead doing, Johnston said, including overdoing the Cotswolds fashion, calling daytime parties “darties” and celebrating St. Patrick’s Day harder than the Irish do.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 16, 2026

"It was clear he was overdoing it," our eyewitness said.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2025

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

From Salon ● May 30, 2024

It’s almost another hour of adjustments and testing and warnings about not overdoing it, watching for hot spots, and avoiding stump blisters at all cost before I walk out of there.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen