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- verb Present participle of
overcorrect .
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Examples
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Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama and 28 years younger than he is.
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Just somewhere here, in the top shelf of the door, and then before he could do anything about it the knife, buckling under the pressure and something to do with realizing it was stuck and perhaps overcorrecting the situation by pushing the door too far back, sprung out of whatever it was into his neck.
Realism in Fiction 2008
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This Memorial Day weekend, the movies are correcting — or maybe overcorrecting.
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Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama and 28 years younger than he is.
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Like a driver overcorrecting out of a swerve, he chooses someone who is two years younger than the youthful Obama and 28 years younger than he is.
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Rather than completely overcorrecting, a repeated iterative correction, without going to the extremes, may prove more fruitful.
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Repeated overcorrecting results in penduluming (which is often sub-optimal behavior).
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In the physical world for instance, repeated or extreme overcorrecting while driving can cause a car to roll.
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As we undertake these changes, of course, there's a danger of overcorrecting.
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As usual Washington is overcorrecting: wrongdoing has hardly disappeared from the capital, yet all the agents of inquiry are in disrepute.
Bill On The Brink 2008
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