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  • verb Present participle of overprepare.

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Examples

  • We still have a terraforming platform to raid and disable, and there is such a thing as overpreparing.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • We still have a terraforming platform to raid and disable, and there is such a thing as overpreparing.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • We still have a terraforming platform to raid and disable, and there is such a thing as overpreparing.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Seize the Fire Michael A. Martin 2010

  • He gave a chemistry-class lecture once a week, and she would often tell him that overpreparing was as bad as underpreparing.

    The New Yorker Stories Ann Beattie 2010

  • Don't procrastinate, and don't worry about overpreparing or overreacting because we're dealing here with people's lives; we're dealing here with animals; we're dealing here with a lot of property and so on.

    CNN Transcript May 23, 2008 2008

  • I have a bad habit of overpreparing for massive parties.

    superhero99 Diary Entry superhero99 2005

  • JANE EUBANKS, RESIDENT: From everything I saw yesterday with the Sprint trucks and massive amount of Dominion power trucks that have already come here, National Guard trucks, I feel like they're overpreparing just to make sure that they don't get caught.

    CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2005 2005

  • De Los Santos teased Iorio gently for overpreparing for his few minutes in the witness chair.

    Every Breath You Take Ann Rule 2000

  • CP: Speaking of overpreparing … we heard you sleep in a cage?

    The Clog 2010

  • Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 10: 51am PST Spotlight: Law firm's overpreparing helped it succeed in 2009, sees strength next year

    Sacramento Business News - Local Sacramento News | The Sacramento Business Journal 2010

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