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overboard

[oh-ver-bawrd, -bohrd] / ˈoʊ vərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrd /






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Sure, some attorneys may have gone overboard on advertising in the decades since.

From Los Angeles Times

Lines such as “I love to count, it relaxes me and it gives me an achievable goal” point at a disquieting loneliness without going overboard.

From The Wall Street Journal

You think they’d fall overboard and get clean once in a while.”

From Los Angeles Times

For the past three hours, Machado and a small crew had drifted on a skiff in the Gulf of Venezuela after its GPS fell overboard on rough seas and a backup failed.

From The Wall Street Journal

She said theories included it was captured accidentally by a trawler and then thrown overboard, or killed by a whale.

From BBC