overdo

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

Either way, avoid going full-liquid; squash carries a lot of water and it’s easy to overdo it.

From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2025

He was probably concerned that Workman, being unfamiliar with Seabiscuit, would overdo it and antagonize the horse.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2023

“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

She can be chilly, needy or brutally blunt, but neither Mr. Aster nor Ms. Collette overdoes her weirdness.

From New York Times ● Jun. 7, 2018

She overdoes it; you will turn her energy into other channels.

From The Danger Mark by Wenzell, A. B.

“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

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

From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2023

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

She overdid the you startled me jump and turned around, a pink-handled hammer in hand.

From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth

Certain episodes are overlong and overdone, stuffed with one scabrous exploit after another.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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

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

After leading several markets to record highs this year, technology firms are facing selling pressure on concerns that the eye-watering sums pumped into artificial intelligence may have been overdone and stock valuations are too high.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026

Unlike their aunt, the children won’t put up with this kind of overdone gush.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez

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

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

But, after they narrowly avoided an embarrassing defeat at Champions League minnows Qarabag, there were those questioning whether they might be overdoing the changes.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

On the other hand, I am not sure if Parker Posey is trying to sound crazy on purpose because her character is heavily medicated, or if she’s just really overdoing that drawl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025

She knew she was overdoing it a bit but something made her keep on.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder