overactive
Example Sentences
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“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
Koy, the son of a white father and Filipina mother, saw comedy as a way to channel an overactive personality and need to make people laugh into a career.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 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
Researchers are probing the pill’s efficacy in patients with Type 2 inflammatory diseases, which are triggered by an overactive immune response.
From Barron's ● Dec. 8, 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
