overachiever
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If the bare minimum is enough for you to be seen and recognized for solid work, there might be no need to become an office overachiever.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 30, 2025
You’re an overachiever, a Berkeley grad and former Groundlings member.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2025
Gilbert, who had the same likelihood of inheriting the disease but did not, said losing them turned her into an overachiever who always wanted to fight for the underdog.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
If you’re going to be an overachiever, be one like Schuyler Peters.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
To stay in shape, but also for the nature-connectedness-science-y beauty all around outside and for the overachiever challenge of distance.
From "A Heart in a Body in the World" by Deb Caletti
We've even seen how results of teams eventually fall in line with their underlying numbers over the course of this season, with early overachievers Aston Villa and Sunderland.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
A lot of us big readers are overachievers or rewards driven.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 19, 2026
Like any friend group, “Next Gen NYC” is filled with overachievers and underachievers; people who have family money and people who work long hours, scraping by to make their way in the big city.
From Salon ● Aug. 2, 2025
The overachievers plug in a strand of orange lights, blowup some inflatable ghosts and call it a day.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2023
It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn’t the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby.
From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer
