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
Investors shouldn’t overreact to short-term shifts because there’ll almost always be a juicier sandwich and a snappier marketing campaign to turn the tide.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
When asked about the loss, Mbappe was keen to not overreact.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
Its stock is down, but investors shouldn’t overreact to worries about the autonomous-vehicle business.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
“It’s just a meeting, y’all, I promise. It’s not even the actual protest. Even then...we should probably wait to overreact until we know what it is this protest will even be.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
In Novartis’s trial, three people died of a rare complication in which the immune system overreacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The financial press often overreacts about the bullish or bearish momentum behind popular investment themes.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
Sepsis develops when the body's immune system overreacts to an infection and begins damaging its own tissues and organs.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 30, 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
"He's harmless, but cautious of everything and he sometimes overreacts."
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2023
It is conceivable that the equity markets overreacted to the warrant distributions on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026
The treasury secretary also highlighted reasons why any restructuring of the mortgage giants isn’t imminent, and the market may have overreacted to his comments.
From Barron's ● Oct. 21, 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
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
“In our view, equity markets are overreacting to both developments,” Lee said, adding that stocks tend to respond quickly to developments in conflicts because of uncertainty.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 24, 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
Castellanos and others have accused the department of overreacting to the situation, which they maintain was largely peaceful.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
I mean, Lee Lee’s aunt is always overreacting and fussing and putting Lee Lee on punishment for something.
From "Piecing Me Together" by Renée Watson
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