overbalance

Example Sentences

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Consider the overbalance of gloss-black surfaces—not just the grille form but the roof, roof racks, roof pillars, bumpers, mirror caps, rear diffuser thingy, deep-tinted rear glass and heavy window masking.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

This book is important and in certain ways I admired Barnett’s decision to overbalance her and her clients’ struggles with joy.

From New York Times • Sep. 8, 2020

If the managers of the individual ETFs overbalance a certain asset, that concentration risk can be compounded, Magoon says.

From US News • Sep. 30, 2016

And Coleridge “made of Hamlet a Coleridge,” a man who, in Coleridge’s words, suffers from “an overbalance in the contemplative faculty,” and thus “loses his natural power of action.”

From Slate • Jan. 20, 2012

About halfway I started to overbalance and swung my legs backward to keep from tipping over.

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge