go overboard
Example Sentences
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When it comes to supplements or over-the-counter peptides, don’t go overboard.
From Barron's • May 21, 2026
It’s clearly a passion project, and like many passion projects, it can go overboard at times, grow overstuffed, not to say oversolemn — though solemnity, to be sure, is appropriate to the history.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025
“We go overboard because we haven’t learned how to temperate our appetite for memory.”
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2024
In children with autism, it seems to go overboard, and this can be measured with a simple eye-tracking device.
From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024
Dylan’s love for Elliott Smith can go overboard sometimes, like when he gave me shit for a solid week because I once spelled Elliott’s name without the second t.
From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera
