overdo

As with past movie trends from superheroes to Westerns, the risk is that Hollywood will overdo it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

Berg’s Guard might overdo it with the vociferousness with which he announces every entrance at the court, but overdoing it is Ionesco’s mode.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026

But, Dr Munro cautions that you shouldn't overdo it.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2025

“One of the best things about music’s potential to decrease dementia risk is that it is fun, can be interactive and you can’t overdo it,” Jaffa said.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025

I should be afraid she might overdo, if I didn’t know her ‘moral fit’ wouldn’t last long.

From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott

“What we’re doing here is trying to take mechanisms that fight where your body overdoes it.”

From Washington Times ● Mar. 6, 2021

She overdoes her offer of a nightcap to an increasingly angry Frankenstein, first proffering brandy, then “varm milk . . . perhaps?” and, finally, the chocolate malted kid’s drink Ovaltine.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2021

Arbery overdoes the symbolism – as with a noisily explosive generator that echoes the breaking string in Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019

“The movie succeeds because it at once restrains its sticky, gooey good cheer and wildly overdoes it,” the critic A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.

From New York Times ● Dec. 24, 2018

This over-mastering shrewdness or calculation even overdoes itself and becomes amusing, when he tries, for example, to deceive his guardian goddess as to who he is.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)

The British number one sustained a rib injury in the build-up to Roland Garros after he "overdid it with the preparation".

From BBC ● May 26, 2026

“We underdid it in the great financial crisis, so we overdid it here,” said Patrick Harker, who was president of the Philadelphia Fed for a decade before stepping down last June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 14, 2026

Here’s what to do if you overdid it.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 12, 2026

“But I overdid it … seven minutes, don’t do it.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

If anything, I generally overdid things, especially when it came to preparing for a big moment or test, but this one I’d let slip by.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

It followed a busy festive period with her husband Ross and four-year-old twins Max and Freddie, and when she developed a headache she initially thought she had just "overdone it".

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

But if the glamour of Ernst’s life is overdone, the novel is so action-packed that you hardly have time to roll your eyes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

While Thill believes the selloff is overdone, he and his team “acknowledge the concerns around RPO to revenue conversion and the slowdown in cloud apps,” he wrote.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 11, 2026

The American depositary receipts are down 20% this year, which seems a little overdone given the Irish carrier’s fuel dynamics and industry-leading position.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Ifemelu thought most of the decor fussy and overdone, but the post received enthusiastic comments, especially about the decor.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Some also say Americans — as in the case of previous health fads — run the risk of overdoing it.

From MarketWatch ● May 10, 2026

True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025

On the other hand, I am not sure if Parker Posey is trying to sound crazy on purpose because her character is heavily medicated, or if she’s just really overdoing that drawl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 16, 2025

A minor criticism was an overdoing of a bouncer plan to Santner and Henry, still that led to Brook's moment of magic.

From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024

She knew she was overdoing it a bit but something made her keep on.

From "The Egypt Game" by Zilpha Keatley Snyder