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Allergies occur when the immune system overreacts to triggers such as dust and pollution.

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“But I hope we don’t overreact,” he said, and turn away from the notion of good fire.

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The storm was not currently affecting business, she said, adding that "most weather channels are overreacting" - although she added it might be a different story farther south in Hatteras Island.

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Jackson understands that the video was in “very poor taste,” but she believes the police overreacted and traumatized her granddaughter in the process.

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Letiecq said that, in her view, Washington has overreacted, not underreacted, to complaints of antisemitism, instituting restrictions on protests and punishments for protesters that she considers “oppressive.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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