overachiever

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

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

The Brewers are the small-market overachievers, who somehow have retained their little-engine-that-could persona despite owning the best regular-season record in baseball last year.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

The Rays and Brewers, the plucky overachievers both still seeking their first championships, settled for more modest improvements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 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

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