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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overtest.

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Examples

  • Of the many ways Americans are overtested and overtreated, imaging is one of the most common and insidious.

    Americans Get Most Radiation From Medical Scans 2010

  • But from Tokyo to Taipei and Singapore, governments are realizing their children are so overstressed and overtested that they are ill equipped for the Information Age, where thinking and creativity hold a premium.

    Learning To Think 2008

  • JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: She was overtested, marketed, researched.

    CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2008 2008

  • JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: She was overtested, marketed, researched.

    CNN Transcript Jun 6, 2008 2008

  • JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: She was overtested, marketed, researched, and she was trying to be what people told her she should be instead of being herself.

    CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2008 2008

  • "Students are overtested," Lutz says, noting that some who take the old SAT would take the SAT II writing test anyway.

    HOW TO SURVIVE THE NEW SAT 2007

  • "Students are overtested," Lutz says, noting that some who take the old SAT would take the SAT II writing test anyway.

    SURVIVING THE NEW SAT 2007

  • Sama had not received any complaints from patients regarding the allegations, but generally patients would not know if they had been involved, besides being overtested or overinvestigated, Erasmus said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • On the other hand, the British have always excelled in their nautical ability to guard against deficiency in outfit, which was not overtested unless there were sufficient cause to demand such a risk.

    Drake Nelson and Napoleon Runciman, Walter 1919

  • Too much exposure to radiation is directly linked to cancer, a radiologist called Dr. Steven Birnbaum says that if you have had more than 10 CT scans the risk of cancer is high, he believes that Americans are overtested and overtreated.

    Product Reviews Net 2010

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