overbalance

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

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

And Coleridge “made of Hamlet a Coleridge,” a man who, in Coleridge’s words, suffers from “an overbalance in the contemplative faculty,” and thus “loses his natural power of action.”

From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012

But the sword was too long for him; a particularly wild swing made him overbalance, and he landed facedown in the grass.

From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling

“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

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

Also, a fund of funds can get overbalanced.

From US News ● Sep. 30, 2016

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

“Oh, I have confidence enough!” said Buller; “it’s the power of getting on to the edge without overbalancing myself that I want, and all that rot about the laws of gravity won’t help me.”

From Dr. Jolliffe's Boys by Frank Feller

The partial success of his Haverhill store, to an extent overbalancing the initial failure in Boston, had brought him into the metropolis of America, the city of wider, if indeed not unlimited opportunity.

From The Romance of a Great Store by Edward Hungerford

The overbalancing magnetic force does not act “contrary to the established course of things,” but simply performs its own functions in full harmony with that course; so of all mysterious events in the vast universe.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam