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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overregulate.

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Examples

  • Our government bails out their friends, over taxes and overregulates.

    Movement 'coming from the soil of America,' conservative says 2009

  • Mr. Perry spoke in South Carolina on Monday, telling a crowd in Conway that the government overregulates, that taxes are too high, and that, in a jab at the other Republican candidates, "there is no one that has the record of job creation that I have."

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 2011

  • Mr. Perry spoke in South Carolina on Monday, telling a crowd in Conway that the government overregulates, that taxes are too high, and that, in a jab at the other Republican candidates, "there is no one that has the record of job creation that I have."

    NYT > Home Page By MICHAEL D. SHEAR 2011

  • A market corrects, people who are long on that market get hurt, the media blows the issue vastly out of proportion, politicians grandstand, Congress overregulates, and a cloud of lawyers comes swarming across the plain laying waste to everything in sight.

    NY Daily News 2010

  • A market corrects, people who are long on that market get hurt, the media blows the issue vastly out of proportion, politicians grandstand, Congress overregulates, and a cloud of lawyers comes swarming across the plain laying waste to everything in sight.

    NY Daily News 2009

  • And a legislator who understands human nature will not create an environment of rules which overregulates and overtaxes the nation's citizens, corrupts their character and reduces them to wards of the state - as liberals do. "

    Seaspook's Rants 2009

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