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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overexplain .
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Examples
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We live in a time and culture where everything is overexplained, overexamined, before, during, and after, and I think here's an opportunity -- because God knows it doesn't need the publicity -- to just leave it alone.
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And now I've done and overexplained the whole thing... han
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With the Hemingway/Kipling bias always on display, Orwell's every act is overexplained with a virtual claim on clairvoyance, right up to the moment of his death, when "he wasn't able to ring for a nurse and no one heard his strangled cry for help."
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It's funny, because I always thought NPR reviews overexplained rock music.
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It's funny, because I always thought NPR reviews overexplained rock music.
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And I liked how things weren't overexplained -- I can't exactly remember a specific example, but -- the viewer is shown enough to know what's happening, but not more than you need to know.
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Photos and four-by-six-foot schematic drawings were displayed and overexplained; cnme-scene locations were visited and revisited on the eerie charts that dom. inated the trial's first week.
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This double and overexplained message bothered Anna: Did Don want to go or not?
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This double and overexplained message bothered Anna: Did Don want to go or not?
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Which is preferable to an overexplained, neatly encapsulated cliche.
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