overreact
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Nutrition experts commenting on the research have also urged people not to overreact.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2026
"I did overreact, yes, in the way I reacted. It could have been different but I ended up losing my head," added Neymar.
From BBC ● May 6, 2026
"Our position for the moment is not to overreact," said Forissier's office.
From Barron's ● May 5, 2026
Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem said officials agreed not to overreact to a near-term surge in inflation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026
I tried not to overreact anytime they reported making a new friend, though inwardly I was jubilant.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
The financial press often overreacts about the bullish or bearish momentum behind popular investment themes.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
“The market overreacts habitually to anxiety as it relates to our sector,” Nuttall told analysts Thursday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 5, 2026
Sepsis is when the body's immune system overreacts to an infection and starts attacking its own tissues and organs.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2024
Sepsis is a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s tissues and organs.
From Seattle Times ● May 22, 2024
However, this balance is upset if the immune system overreacts.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 17, 2024
“They overreacted, and there’s proof that they overreacted because now there’s a framework that makes sense,” Lutnick said in an interview with Bloomberg TV at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026
Michael Sansoterra, chief investment officer at Silvant Capital Management, thinks investors have overreacted.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 7, 2025
In the food court, two freshmen debated whether the university had overreacted with the new police patrols and K-9 unit.
From Slate ● Oct. 30, 2025
An optimist would say the market overreacted and now it’s time to get on with our lives.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2025
The panic attack I had that day was because I overreacted to something I shouldn’t have reacted to.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The cost of missing a real threat was death, while the cost of overreacting was a few minutes of wasted vigilance.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 16, 2026
"If there's a worse stretch of road in the UK, I'd like to see it, and if anyone thinks I'm overreacting I'd be happy to show them."
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2026
This time it hit after he booted his own center Steven Jamerson II from a game at Michigan State on Feb. 17, overreacting because he mistook a clean basketball play for something else.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2026
For Ms. Thompson, a historian at the University of Michigan, the Goetz case is not a nuanced tale of a scared passenger overreacting to a perceived threat.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026
I know she thinks I’m overreacting again, but I’m not overreacting and really can’t deal with her telling me I’m overreacting.
From "A High Five for Glenn Burke" by Phil Bildner
