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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of oversteer.

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Examples

  • My understanding is that in trying to correct and come back on the road, he oversteered and he jackknifed.

    CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2005 2005

  • He said the Swiss driver, Leif Almroth, 53, fell asleep at the wheel and when he awoke he oversteered the vehicle, which collided with the oncoming Opel.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • .747, Williams 'Nico Hulkenberg on 1min25. 748 and Kamui Kobayashi, who had a great catch as his BMW Sauber oversteered viciously through the final turn, on

    Motoring 2010

  • The girl oversteered and panicked, then accelerated instead of braking.

    Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News By MERCER ISLAND REPORTER 2010

  • Jamma and I borrowed it to burn around Fishguard Square but I overcooked it in fourth around Cross Corner and oversteered into a gate.

    Life and style | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Hammer into corners and you snap oversteered at the apex so you could take them far faster than would be physically possible.

    Computer And Video Games 2009

  • Only downpoint, however, is that the voices sound a bit on the sharp side like they're oversteered or something.

    Fragland :: Everything 2009

  • Unfortunately the voices sound a bit oversteered at times.

    Fragland :: Everything 2009

  • Yes, the truck oversteered in a predictable, controlled fashion.

    The Car Connection 2009

  • Hammer into corners and you snap oversteered at the apex so you could take them far faster than would be physically possible.

    Computer And Video Games 2009

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