overactive

Example Sentences

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"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025

Additional work will also explore how disease-related declines in PIP2 remove this regulatory control, allowing Piezo1 to remain overactive and impair cerebral blood flow.

From Science Daily • Dec. 25, 2025

Researchers are probing the pill’s efficacy in patients with Type 2 inflammatory diseases, which are triggered by an overactive immune response.

From Barron's • Dec. 8, 2025

“I have a prescription for an overactive bladder.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

"And why were you wasting precious time listening to an overaged delivery boy with an overactive imagination when you should have been studying."

From "The Westing Game" by Ellen Raskin