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

If you’re going to be an overachiever, be one like Schuyler Peters.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

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

“Every time a leftover freeze hits an overachiever bunch of flowers, humans panic. But the flowers just say, ‘We got this.

From "Blended" by Sharon M. Draper

Brighton, currently seventh in the EPL, is consistently one of the biggest overachievers in English soccer and Union Saint-Gilloise, which plays in a 9,000-seat stadium, last year reached the Champions League.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 15, 2026

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

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