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  • adjective Excessively planned.

Etymologies

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over- +‎ planned

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Examples

  • Eschenbach, making his debut with the Houston Grand Opera, spotted something special and worked with her on the role every day -- once a common way for a conductor to interact with a singer, today almost unheard of in an era of overplanned schedules.

    Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start? Anne Midgette 2010

  • Eschenbach, making his debut with the Houston Grand Opera, spotted something special and worked with her on the role every day -- once a common way for a conductor to interact with a singer, today almost unheard of in an era of overplanned schedules.

    Can Christoph Eschenbach and the National Symphony Orchestra give each other a fresh start? 2010

  • I love ELR even now but now I feel its too overplanned.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - What kind of stuff do YOU want to see? 2007

  • Possibly because they aren't overplanned, engineered affairs, the wedding parties tend to have a glow about them, of pleasure and happiness that's unfeigned.

    A Wedding, A Backroom Deal, and An Art Show sfmike 2007

  • Possibly because they aren't overplanned, engineered affairs, the wedding parties tend to have a glow about them, of pleasure and happiness that's unfeigned.

    Archive 2007-06-01 sfmike 2007

  • It's an overplanned, excessively uniform, characterless nowhere full of identical shopping centers, housing developments with pseudo-aristocratic or bucolic names and divided boulevards bisected by grassy medians with identical trees spaced at uniform intervals.

    Greetings from the belly of the beast Lisa B. 2006

  • It's an overplanned, excessively uniform, characterless nowhere full of identical shopping centers, housing developments with pseudo-aristocratic or bucolic names and divided boulevards bisected by grassy medians with identical trees spaced at uniform intervals.

    Archive 2006-08-01 Lisa B. 2006

  • To the degree that it looks forced or overplanned, then your outfit looks contrived.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • To the degree that it looks forced or overplanned, then your outfit looks contrived.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

  • To the degree that it looks forced or overplanned, then your outfit looks contrived.

    Before You Put That On Lloyd Boston 2005

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