overactive
Example Sentences
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Relaxing travel activities may also help reduce chronic stress and calm an overactive immune response.
From Science Daily ● May 4, 2026
“As most fiction, it is a composite, an amalgam of personal experience, research and my fertile, overactive imagination,” Raicek said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Researchers are probing the pill’s efficacy in patients with Type 2 inflammatory diseases, which are triggered by an overactive immune response.
From Barron's ● Dec. 8, 2025
Instead, he said that the unusual incident may have been due to the bee colony becoming too large for its beehive and becoming "overactive" when the beekeeper handled it.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2025
Noah has an overactive imagination, written on every school report I’ve ever gotten.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
