overachiever
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Chicken, however, is omnipresent — the quiet overachiever of the protein world, endlessly adaptable and perennially in demand.
From Salon ● Apr. 26, 2026
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
If you’re going to be an overachiever, be one like Schuyler Peters.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024
If you’re an overachiever who’s already listened to every single playlist?
From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2023
I’m something of an overachiever in that class.
From "The Sun Is Also a Star" by Nicola Yoon
So let's have look at the continent's biggest overachievers - have your say, tell us who we've missed and rank the top 10 below.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 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
