overactive
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In Lowen’s overactive imagination, Hathaway plays a Hitchcockian femme fatale always wearing her signature color, red.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Studies in people have shown that this area tends to be overactive in those with chronic pain.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 27, 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
"I'm a fierce perfectionist and there is an overactive, hugely self-critical voice in my head - my whole life is an exercise in trying to shake that," he says.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
My mother used to tell me that I had an overactive imagination; Tom said that, too.
From "The Girl on the Train" by Paula Hawkins
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