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- adjective
Excessively productive ; producing more than desired or necessary.
Etymologies
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Examples
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What really works, though, is something that wouldn't cross most of our overproductive minds: a passion or a hobby.
Does Pursuing Our Passions Really Make Us Happier? Joe Robinson 2011
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His overproductive salivary glands are a constant source of amusement for DX.
The Unauthorized History of DX TRIPLE H 2009
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His overproductive salivary glands are a constant source of amusement for DX.
The Unauthorized History of DX TRIPLE H 2009
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His overproductive salivary glands are a constant source of amusement for DX.
The Unauthorized History of DX TRIPLE H 2009
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His overproductive salivary glands are a constant source of amusement for DX.
The Unauthorized History of DX TRIPLE H 2009
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In Arctic lands labor is paralyzed by cold as it is by heat in the enervating and overproductive Tropics.
Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897
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In 1933 the rubber, clothing, and shipbuilding industries put into effect a six-hour workday, believing it a seeming permanent accommodation rather than a temporary expedient for what many observers thought was an economy made overproductive by advances in technology.
unknown title 2009
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