overbalance
Example Sentences
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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
In general, your body wants to be more in control than it is; it is always on point, eager to run a rescue mission, to overbalance, overcompensate, throw out a flailing arm.
From Salon • Jun. 2, 2013
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
But the sword was too long for him; a particularly wild swing made him overbalance, and he landed facedown in the grass.
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
