overreact

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The researchers found that infants who suffer severe RSV infections in their first months of life are more likely to develop immune responses that overreact to common allergens, including house dust mites.

From Science Daily

But the available data are nevertheless sufficient to illustrate, once again, how Wall Street tends to overreact.

From MarketWatch

“It is not that China overreacts. It is that the U.S. kept emboldening Taiwan independence forces, which is egregious in nature,” she said.

From Washington Times

Police had described the pitch invasion as a riot and said two officers were killed, but witnesses accused them of overreacting.

From Seattle Times

That doesn’t mean the U.S. and its allies shouldn’t be cognizant of the possibility that Putin might overreact.

From Los Angeles Times