overachiever

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

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

Mr. Cherry is best known for his role as the snarky overachiever Dylan in the dystopian Apple TV+ workplace thriller series “Severance.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 6, 2024

Beau, the overachiever, was elected attorney general of Delaware, served in Iraq, was diagnosed in 2013 with brain cancer and died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2023

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

They were a classic bunch of overachievers who had become living proof of all the perceived values of white working-class and middle-class America—desire, self-sacrifice, pushing oneself beyond the expected limit.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger