overcompensate

I also learned to overcompensate and create a persona that helped me talk comfortably to people.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

This sounds obvious, she says, but many people “neglect to pause” and try to overcompensate, which causes them to talk in circles.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

If anything, their father and mother took that away from them and left them feeling powerless, which explains this need for Kendall to overcompensate and try too hard and overshoot the mark.

From New York Times ● May 30, 2023

To conquer it, Williams said he would overcompensate, sometimes giving artists dozens of visual references or heavily detailed documentation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 14, 2022

Her breeziness was forced, laid on thickly, and Ifemelu felt burdened with guilt, and with a desire to overcompensate.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Inflationary pressures from this wage growth may mean a rate-cutting Fed overcompensates with more aggressive balance sheet cuts to sustain credibility.

From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026

“But we think that spread in P/E multiples overcompensates for the quality difference between the two companies.”

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 5, 2026

Elena rejects Dovydas at certain times, and Dovydas overcompensates at moments that have them determining if and how they can be together.

From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023

The songs are written from the point of view of a "woman who feels powerless and overcompensates by exercising extreme control on herself and on her environment," Mitski told The Outline.

From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2018

It overcompensates by seemingly airing every game from November to the Sunday when the field of 68 teams is announced.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2015

They championed Apple TV Plus early, for instance, even if they overcompensated by practically salivating all over “Ted Lasso.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 12, 2022

Others are saying she overcompensated for her unconvincing aggressiveness last time round - and was too defensive this time.

From BBC ● Apr. 20, 2022

He said some of the workers’ complaints stem from an error made in calculating daily performance bonuses for two crews, in which one was overcompensated and the other undercompensated, but that was quickly fixed.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

After its sales skyrocketed in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Peloton overcompensated by spending hundreds of millions to expedite shipping and build a new factory.

From The Verge ● Feb. 19, 2022

Jessie lifted up a knee to prop up the tray but overcompensated.

From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser

However, the director of the body that represents the lending industry said before the final ruling that it thought the FCA was "overcompensating".

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2026

He said in those early years he was often overcompensating for his own feelings of inadequacy as the son of a single mom who struggled to pay the rent.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026

The movie seems to recoil from its own hammering dramatics, with Bryce Dessner’s score toggling uneasily between jocular blues and dour, overcompensating strings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2025

They don't seem to get that bullies are usually overcompensating.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024

But was Rowan overcompensating now by choosing the most pleasant looking of them?

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman