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- noun Plural form of
overcorrection .
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Examples
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Last week the Bush administration spoke of "overcorrections," now it's warming to the writedown of principal.
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"This seems to be the beginning of one of the worst overcorrections I've ever seen," said Doreen Mogavero, president of floor-brokerage firm Mogavero, Lee & Co.
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It took another ten minutes and I made the overcorrections and hit the power too late because she was going down like a stone and I panicked and Thompson went on talking into my headset, repeating himself so often that I didn't have enough time to assess anything for myself.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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While past economic down cycles are typically caused by monetary tightening, the one we have now was triggered by imbalances in our financial system due to credit system woes and a swinging pendulum of overextensions then overcorrections in the markets.
pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator 2009
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This, though, fails just as terribly as the graphics -- the motion recognition is horribly sloppy and imprecise, and you'll be fighting against the overcorrections the game tries to make for your movements constantly.
IGN Wii 2009
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