overactive
Example Sentences
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“As most fiction, it is a composite, an amalgam of personal experience, research and my fertile, overactive imagination,” Raicek said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
The disease develops when repeated or long-term liver damage -- caused by viral hepatitis, excessive alcohol use, metabolic disorders, toxins, or autoimmune disease -- triggers an overactive healing response.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 6, 2026
"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
The company launched a new product for overactive bladder called Altaviva.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
My mother used to tell me that I had an overactive imagination; Tom said that, too.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
