overreact
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I urge you not to overreact and jump to conclusions about your husband’s long-term plans.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 6, 2026
She makes some insufficiently careful decisions, but those around her tend to overreact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Wall Street analysts told investors not to overreact to Amazon’s supply chain ambitions, noting that the company has been expanding its logistics operations for years.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
“But we’re not going to overreact to the whipsawing of markets up, markets down based on what’s happening on a day-to-day basis from the conflict.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 26, 2026
In England, foreign secretary Anthony Eden said he “deeply regretted” the news, and then set about pressuring the French not to overreact.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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 is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s tissues and organs.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
Sepsis is a rare but serious condition that develops when the body's immune system overreacts to an infection and starts attacking its own tissues and organs.
From BBC ● May 21, 2024
However, this balance is upset if the immune system overreacts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
“They overreacted, and there’s proof that they overreacted because now there’s a framework that makes sense,” Lutnick said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 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
During the day I overreacted to each event, my banked emotions spilling around it.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
He will usher them through the chaos of the evening; sifting through datapoints, overreacting to turnout data, monitoring bellwether counties.
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026
But the market might be overreacting to the implications of an AI slowdown, leading tech stocks to trade at their cheapest levels since the launch of ChatGPT, according to Truist analyst Sam Grelck.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
The requests add to pressure on the industry, continuing months of turmoil that executives have tried to calm by arguing investors are overreacting to a few losses and a lot of scary headlines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 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
And I start to wonder if maybe this whole time, I’ve been overreacting about having vitiligo.
From "How to Disappear Completely" by Ali Standish
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