overbalance
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Consider the overbalance of gloss-black surfaces—not just the grille form but the roof, roof racks, roof pillars, bumpers, mirror caps, rear diffuser thingy, deep-tinted rear glass and heavy window masking.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026
This book is important and in certain ways I admired Barnett’s decision to overbalance her and her clients’ struggles with joy.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
If the managers of the individual ETFs overbalance a certain asset, that concentration risk can be compounded, Magoon says.
From US News ● Sep. 30, 2016
And Coleridge “made of Hamlet a Coleridge,” a man who, in Coleridge’s words, suffers from “an overbalance in the contemplative faculty,” and thus “loses his natural power of action.”
From Slate ● Jan. 20, 2012
But the sword was too long for him; a particularly wild swing made him overbalance, and he landed facedown in the grass.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
“There was an economy that probably wasn’t balanced, but wasn’t horribly overbalanced in one direction — then that became horribly unbalanced.”
From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2022
The match was closed out on the 17th despite a quite sensational shot from Spieth, who nearly ended up running into the lake as he overbalanced while playing from heavy rough.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021
Hubbard overbalanced on her opening weight of 120 kilograms, taking the bar behind her shoulders.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021
It must give way, the court determined, when overbalanced by the “legitimate needs” of another branch of government—in Nixon, the judiciary—in fulfilling its own constitutional role.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2020
It picked up momentum as the heavy weight of the overbalanced top dove for the ground.
From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls
But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021
Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2016
However, sweet food is required to a certain extent in each person's diet, and it may be obtained in this agreeable form without overbalancing the food account if a little economy is practiced elsewhere.
From Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 4: Salads and Sandwiches; Cold and Frozen Desserts; Cakes, Cookies and Puddings; Pastries and Pies by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
The old pirate threw himself back with all his might, in the hopes of overbalancing the man whose arm he held, and dragging him with him.
From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.
He leaped, with the words, to the door, lunging against it, sending it crashing back so that it smashed against the wall, overbalancing some boxes that reposed on a shelf and sending them clattering.
From 'Firebrand' Trevison by Ivory, P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman)
