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- noun An
analysis carried too far; the act or process ofoveranalyzing .
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Examples
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The only people who would be baffled by this question are those prone to overanalysis, which is to say, bloggy types.
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Of course there is always the probability which I never exclude which is that I'm just annoying company and I have no very close, regular friends for a good reasons one of which is the very kind of overanalysis that occupies me writing this very essay at 8 on a Sunday evening.
Cobb 2009
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Of course there is always the probability which I never exclude which is that I'm just annoying company and I have no very close, regular friends for a good reasons one of which is the very kind of overanalysis that occupies me writing this very essay at 8 on a Sunday evening.
Cobb 2009
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The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis.
Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas Chris Weigant 2011
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The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis.
Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas Chris Weigant 2011
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This seems to be a large point that all the overanalysis of rumors in the past few weeks has largely missed.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama 2.0? Chris Weigant 2011
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This seems to be a large point that all the overanalysis of rumors in the past few weeks has largely missed.
Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Obama 2.0? Chris Weigant 2011
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The day after President Obama's big yearly speech to Congress and the American people, most pundits and talking-head types in the media are vying to outdo each other on stating "what it all means" or similar high-flown overanalysis.
Chris Weigant: Obama's New Ideas Chris Weigant 2011
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Furthermore, much of the lack of discussion of the fall of Communism stems from an overanalysis of the consequences of that fall.
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You can take your ridiculous feminist-school neurotic overanalysis elsewhere.
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