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overbalance

[oh-ver-bal-uhns, oh-ver-bal-uhns] / ˌoʊ vərˈbæl əns, ˈoʊ vərˌbæl əns /




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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

Beats Labuschagne, challenges his pads, then has the batsman flick to short leg and overbalance...

From The Guardian ● Sep. 4, 2019

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

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

From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge

“There was an economy that probably wasn’t balanced, but wasn’t horribly overbalanced in one direction — then that became horribly unbalanced.”

From The Verge ● Apr. 8, 2022

The match was closed out on the 17th despite a quite sensational shot from Spieth, who nearly ended up running into the lake as he overbalanced while playing from heavy rough.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2021

Hubbard overbalanced on her opening weight of 120 kilograms, taking the bar behind her shoulders.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 2, 2021

It must give way, the court determined, when overbalanced by the “legitimate needs” of another branch of government—in Nixon, the judiciary—in fulfilling its own constitutional role.

From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2020

It picked up momentum as the heavy weight of the overbalanced top dove for the ground.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

But he is in danger of overbalancing the entire film: this is a rock’n’roll performance from someone who is usually happier with piano sonatas.

From The Guardian ● Jan. 28, 2021

Levin’s playing was heavy-handed and shapeless, chugging mechanically along and sometimes overbalancing Hahn’s more restrained, often vibratoless violin lines.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2016

She was able to cling tightly with hands and knees, and though she had one awful moment in the middle, when she thought she was overbalancing, she reached Rona's outstretched hand in due course.

From For the Sake of the School by Angela Brazil

He leaped, with the words, to the door, lunging against it, sending it crashing back so that it smashed against the wall, overbalancing some boxes that reposed on a shelf and sending them clattering.

From 'Firebrand' Trevison by P. V. E. (Percy Van Eman) Ivory

His pack swung suddenly to the side, overbalancing him.

From A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London


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