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- verb Present participle of
overapply .
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Examples
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Still, I’m concerned that everyone seems to be responding to the idea of overapplying the concept of symbolic violence.
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Edwards, perhaps overapplying trial lawyer skills, seems to believe that if you stand on a podium and emote more than the other guy, you can single-handedly get what you want.
Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter? 2009
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"Occam's Razor, in the applicable the formulation, is a tool, not a rule, and while it can certainly be useful, we should be wary of overapplying it."
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Occam's Razor, in the applicable the formulation, is a tool, not a rule, and while it can certainly be useful, we should be wary of overapplying it.
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''We're very, very nervous about overapplying the research,'' Loewenstein says.
Scientific Self-help, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I think the problem with Poison was that just too many people were wearing that scent back in its heyday, and overapplying it.
Love, Hate & Revulsion: My Perfume Hall Of Shame Marina Geigert 2007
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John R, regarding your final paragraph on #16, I guess my question would be who is overapplying, us or Bourdieu?
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Preserva's website preservaproducts.com to avoid overapplying the product, allow enough for wood penetration and to wipe off excess material immediately.
SFGate: Top News Stories sweatequity@sfchronicle.com (Bill Burnett 2011
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Follow the instructions on the packaging to be sure you are not overapplying deicer and increasing the risk of harm to the environment. magnesium acetate-based product since those formulas are salt free and have a lower likelihood of damaging plants and soil, as well as concrete surfaces.
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The only way this sort of overapplying the booga-booga is going to be solved or even looked at with some sort of rational eye is if an actual case makes it through the courts. brigid_fitch: Stupid law then, even more stupid now.
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