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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overpursue .
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Examples
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` ` I overpursued the ball and it bounced back, '' Murray said.
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"They overpursued and I just tried to cut it back," Askew said.
NCAA Division I College Football - Wisconsin vs. Michigan 2002
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"They overpursued and I just tried to cut it back," Askew said.
NCAA Division I College Football - Wisconsin vs. Michigan 2002
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"The play was designed to go to the left, and they overpursued," McAllister said.
NFL - National Football League - Pittsburgh vs. New Orleans 2002
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The Raiders overpursued on Eric Decker's 90-yard punt return for a score in the third quarter, and Nick Miller chose not to field a punt and watched it roll to the 2-yard line.
SFGate: Top News Stories Vittorio Tafur 2011
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Lee played a couple hits off the wall in left well enough to hold at least two Giants hitters to singles, when they could have easily gotten doubles if he had overpursued the ball.
The Crawfish Boxes David Coleman 2010
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Wide receivers didn't get open fast enough, Bradford was frequently on the run from a pass rush that rarely blitzed and a defense packed at the line to get the ball back late in the game overpursued on Jamaal Charles' game-deciding 80-yard run to the St. Louis 2.
SFGate: Top News Stories By R.B. FALLSTROM 2010
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He overpursued plenty of plays that the Ravens ran right underneath him.
SI.com 2009
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There are many strategies that work on average, but often many of them are overpursued, and the excess returns have been competed away.
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Just led to a touchdown after Blackburn overpursued the motion on the handoff, which screamed outside run.
unknown title 2009
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