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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overachieve .
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Examples
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Maybe small press will now become "big" press so long as it never overachieves.
Test Drive Into Paterson, New Jersey Proves Scary philreed 2009
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In a summer full of overdone blockbusters (hello, Captain America?) and wan, airless independent films (The Future - urrgh), it's nice to find an old-fashioned low-budget genre film that overachieves.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Attack the Block Marshall Fine 2011
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In relative terms, "comedy overachieves in Washington," Smardak says.
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At the beginning of the second part of this novella, Marlow overhears two other employees of the Company, complaining of a colleague who overachieves in delivering ivory.
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Defensive coordinator Rod Marinelli called him a "great talent that overachieves."
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Not a patch on someone like Moyes imo who consistently overachieves despite his squad / financial constrains.
The Guardian World News Paul Doyle 2011
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Every once in a while there is a really bright class that overachieves and then that is followed by an average to less than average class.
Crooks and Liars karoli 2011
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If it has a small payroll and overachieves such as Maddon's Rays, the perspective is different.
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Andrew Garcia has his acoustic gender-switching "Straight Up" and "Genie In A Bottle" covers; Casey James has several good performances and looks like a model; Aaron Kelly is the Wee Country Singer who always, always overachieves in the
NPR Topics: News 2010
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But the inside linebackers are continually in flux, the line rarely overachieves, and that leaves a young and talented secondary that doesn't have much support when it has a long night.
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