overreact

Example Sentences

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Sepsis develops when the body's immune system overreacts to an infection and begins damaging its own tissues and organs.

From Science Daily

“You don’t think you’re sick. You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you’re seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you’re losing your grip entirely,” he wrote.

From Salon

"You think everyone else is overreacting. You feel like you're seeing the world more clearly than ever, when in reality you're losing your grip entirely," said West, whose achievements include winning 24 Grammy awards.

From Barron's

“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

If the past year taught investors anything, it was the importance of staying patient rather than overreacting to every headline, which led to “more mistakes than benefits” in their investment portfolios, he told MarketWatch.

From MarketWatch