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

Harris recalls being an overachiever as a child and aspiring to become an obstetrician.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 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

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

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 team of overachievers filled with a roster of best friends combined chemistry, determination and toughness to overcome all odds.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2025

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

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