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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overcalculate.

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Examples

  • Bahman Ghobadi's Half Moon, a magic-realist road film about Kurdish musicians trying to cross the border from Iran into Iraq, also comes off as somewhat overcalculated, hinting, like Opera Jawa, at the pitfalls of the New Crowned Hope commission.

    GreenCine Daily: Tokyo Dispatch. FILMeX. 2006

  • That's troubling, but the real problem with microtargeting isn't its practice, but the way it embodies how overpolled and overcalculated our elections have become.

    Campaigns Get Personal 2008

  • Stephanie Zacherek from Salon.com sums up the film as "absinthe in movie form, a white chocolate space egg of a picture that has a giddy hallucinatory quality in some places and an overcalculated glossiness in others".

    Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Tops The US Weekend Box Office Chart 2005

  • She was nearly sober, judging by her steady if slightly overcalculated gait.

    Spin 2005

  • When you see a novel with β€œIn the tradition of (John Grisham/Patricia Corn-well/Mary Higgins Clark/Dean Koontz)” on the cover, you know you are looking at one of these overcalculated (and likely boring) imitations.

    on writing by stephen king scribner 2000

  • 'I beg to assure you that you have overcalculated,' said Mrs. Harbottle.

    The Pool in the Desert Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Sam's dead and gone now and I ain't going to knock him -- but Sam was an exuberant chap and he overcalculated the cost of building the road.

    Otherwise Phyllis Meredith Nicholson 1906

  • She had nearly outgrown the childish proneness to tears, which in early days had earned her the home sobriquet of "Chelsea Waterworks;" but this recital touched her too nearly, and she had overcalculated her power of self-restraint.

    Peggy Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

  • Debuting helmer Anocha Suwitchakornpong and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's regular editor, Lee Chatametikool, play with temporal shifts meant to favor rhythm over linearity, but while the experiment creates some nice qualities, it does become overcalculated.

    Variety.com 2010

  • Debuting helmer Anocha Suwitchakornpong and Apichatpong Weerasethakul's regular editor, Lee Chatametikool, play with temporal shifts meant to favor rhythm over linearity, but while the experiment creates some nice qualities, it does become overcalculated.

    Variety.com 2010

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