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
“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
Additional work will also explore how disease-related declines in PIP2 remove this regulatory control, allowing Piezo1 to remain overactive and impair cerebral blood flow.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 25, 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
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