overreact
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Its stock is down, but investors shouldn’t overreact to worries about the autonomous-vehicle business.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
Did Amanvari overreact to a content creator’s opening week visit to prevent an honest review?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nutrition experts commenting on the research have also urged people not to overreact.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
"I did overreact, yes, in the way I reacted. It could have been different but I ended up losing my head," added Neymar.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
I tried not to overreact anytime they reported making a new friend, though inwardly I was jubilant.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The financial press often overreacts about the bullish or bearish momentum behind popular investment themes.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
“The market overreacts habitually to anxiety as it relates to our sector,” Nuttall told analysts Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Sepsis happens when a person's immune system overreacts to an infection and starts to damage the body's own tissues and organs.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2024
However, this balance is upset if the immune system overreacts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
Their immune system overreacts to peanut-containing foods, triggering an inflammatory cascade that causes hives, wheezing or worse.
From Seattle Times ● May 10, 2023
Some cyber researchers have said they feel the administration overreacted to Amazon’s findings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026
Michael Sansoterra, chief investment officer at Silvant Capital Management, thinks investors have overreacted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
In the food court, two freshmen debated whether the university had overreacted with the new police patrols and K-9 unit.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
An optimist would say the market overreacted and now it’s time to get on with our lives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
The panic attack I had that day was because I overreacted to something I shouldn’t have reacted to.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
Ritholtz does exactly that, running through such surefire ways to wreck your wealth as ignoring taxes, paying excessive fees, misinterpreting data, overreacting to short-term trends, and trading too much.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
The cost of missing a real threat was death, while the cost of overreacting was a few minutes of wasted vigilance.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026
"If there's a worse stretch of road in the UK, I'd like to see it, and if anyone thinks I'm overreacting I'd be happy to show them."
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
This time it hit after he booted his own center Steven Jamerson II from a game at Michigan State on Feb. 17, overreacting because he mistook a clean basketball play for something else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
“You don’t think you’re overreacting? Just a bit?”
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
