overactive

Example Sentences

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Studies in people have shown that this area tends to be overactive in those with chronic pain.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

Axonics makes an implantable device that treats bowel and bladder conditions, such as overactive bladder.

From Barron's • Oct. 30, 2025

“I have a prescription for an overactive bladder.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

She credits what her father jokes is “an overactive sense of justice” to her grandparents, who ran a corner store in Santa Ana in the 1940s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 15, 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