overprotect

Example Sentences

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Brandenburg “wildly overprotects free speech from any logical standpoint,” the University of Chicago law professor Geoffrey R. Stone points out.

From New York Times • Jan. 26, 2021

When a mother learns that her baby is blind, she usually reacts like a little girl taking care of a "sick" doll�she babies it, overprotects it, cushions it from bumps and bruises.

From Time Magazine Archive