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overdo

[oh-ver-doo] / ˌoʊ vərˈdu /


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“It’s not aggressive, it’s not overly sexual, but it does address the stereotypes of guys in dating and how they overdo it,’” Assalini said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 22, 2026

But, Dr Munro cautions that you shouldn't overdo it.

From BBC Nov. 5, 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

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

From Salon Aug. 12, 2025

“You don’t want to overdo it. I think now you guys just need to relax.”

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon

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

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

From Washington Post Nov. 11, 2019

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

I must say myself, that she rather overdoes the part of Mrs. Gummidge.

From Boston Neighbours In Town and Out by Agnes Blake Poor

“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

If anything, I generally overdid things, especially when it came to preparing for a big moment or test, but this one I’d let slip by.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

Chocolate-industry executives have been saying the recent price jump is overdone.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

From Barron's Jun. 17, 2026

Her mother sighed, in the overdone way that meant she wished Olanna would see reason.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

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

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

I am worried that we may be overdoing it, taxing its meaning, to conceal an unmentionable reality that we’ve somehow agreed not to talk about in public.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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