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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overcorrect .
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Examples
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But the “percent of growth” way of talking overcorrects too far in the other direction, treating growth only as a joint product without bothering much about the extent to which differential returns represent differential inputs.
Framing Inequality 2007
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But in doing so Gilroy, like Brantley and Fender, overcorrects.
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Similarly, she dismisses "uncritical critical admirers" of the roistering Sir John Falstaff -- who, for Bloom, is both "the image of freedom's wit" and his own alter ego -- and overcorrects by calling Plump Jack as merely "a diverting and amusing stage presence."
SHAKESPEARE 101: A+ 2007
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The problem is the market typically overcorrects on both the upside and downside.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Gordon Pitts 2010
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Just about every rollover in an SUV is caused when the harebrained driver overcorrects after panicking from veering off into the shoulder.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Troy72 2010
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Just about every rollover in an SUV is caused when the harebrained driver overcorrects after panicking from veering off into the shoulder.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local Troy72 2010
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In making Darwin pathologically despondent for much of the movie, the film overcorrects the cliché that rationality and passion are mutually exclusive.
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