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- verb Present participle of
overread .
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Examples
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In that context Dorment speaks for the generation of Ralph Edwards and Ellis Waterhouse, whose position was represented at its most distinguished in E.H. Gombrich's attack on Leo Steinberg's "overreading" of Michelangelo in this same journal in 1977.
Lenin's Paintings 2009
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I think you are overreading McCarthy, or at the very least McCarthy is not clearly making any distinction between the (negative) right to access to counsel and the (arguably more positive) right to provision of counsel from the government.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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She concurred with the Mazda decision Wednesday but wrote separately to "emphasize the court's rejection of an overreading of Geier that has developed since that opinion was issued."
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The way to capitalize isn't to repeat the mistake Democrats made in 2008 of overreading a mandate from voters—as House Republicans have done from time to time by threatening to send the government into default or by standing in the way of a popular payroll-tax cut—but rather to make sure Republicans are seen as the sensible alternative to Obama-ism.
Battle of Hearts vs. Minds in GOP Gerald F. Seib 2012
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An overreading of the election - something the White House thinks many political pundits have done - would include exaggerations about the lack of youth turnout.
'Soul-searching' Obama aides: Democrats' midterm election losses a wake-up call Anne E. Kornblut 2010
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"[Y] ou are overreading some kind of hard pivot here," he said in an e-mail.
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I think you are overreading McCarthy, or at the very least McCarthy is not clearly making any distinction between the (negative) right to access to counsel and the (arguably more positive) right to provision of counsel from the government.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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An overreading of the election - something the White House thinks many pundits have done - would include exaggerations about the lack of youth turnout.
'Soul-searching' inside the White House Anne E. Kornblut 2010
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Methinks he is overreading some of us. global citizen
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Now you can go back to treating these lowly people the way they usually deserve to be treated I'm probably overreading it, but I was instinctively offended while I was watching it.
"Susan Boyle: What's the big deal?" Ann Althouse 2009
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