overanxious
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I felt like we were overanxious parents that go to the doctor and then you get dismissed.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2022
When they arrived, their overanxious bus driver got so close to the building that the heat forced them to retreat some distance.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
I’m not overanxious about the very idea of “using” a child to make a statement.
From Slate ● Aug. 31, 2018
He escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning, which included a walk of German, by getting an overanxious Judge to groundout.
From New York Times ● Jun. 10, 2018
The scene was so entirely a realization of her worst fears that she sensed that her overanxious imagination had projected the figures onto the packed spines of books.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
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