overbalance
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Consider the overbalance of gloss-black surfaces—not just the grille form but the roof, roof racks, roof pillars, bumpers, mirror caps, rear diffuser thingy, deep-tinted rear glass and heavy window masking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
This book is important and in certain ways I admired Barnett’s decision to overbalance her and her clients’ struggles with joy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
Beats Labuschagne, challenges his pads, then has the batsman flick to short leg and overbalance...
From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2019
If the managers of the individual ETFs overbalance a certain asset, that concentration risk can be compounded, Magoon says.
From US News ● Sep. 30, 2016
About halfway I started to overbalance and swung my legs backward to keep from tipping over.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
“There was an economy that probably wasn’t balanced, but wasn’t horribly overbalanced in one direction — then that became horribly unbalanced.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2022
The match was closed out on the 17th despite a quite sensational shot from Spieth, who nearly ended up running into the lake as he overbalanced while playing from heavy rough.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
Hubbard overbalanced on her opening weight of 120 kilograms, taking the bar behind her shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
It must give way, the court determined, when overbalanced by the “legitimate needs” of another branch of government—in Nixon, the judiciary—in fulfilling its own constitutional role.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2020
It picked up momentum as the heavy weight of the overbalanced top dove for the ground.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
The selfish person who does operate the laws, does so by overbalancing his selfishness with some other great virtue.
From The Silence: What It Is and How To Use It by Bush, David V.
Too late he found the man’s 189 weight overbalancing him.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Horton, Marcus
The harder Ted hit, overbalancing himself to put force into the blow, and the less able to recover himself quickly, the easier Bevis warded, and every three knocks gave Ted a rap.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Jefferies, Richard
