overreact
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Did Amanvari overreact to a content creator’s opening week visit to prevent an honest review?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
She makes some insufficiently careful decisions, but those around her tend to overreact.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
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
“It’s just a meeting, y’all, I promise. It’s not even the actual protest. Even then...we should probably wait to overreact until we know what it is this protest will even be.”
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
In Novartis’s trial, three people died of a rare complication in which the immune system overreacts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The financial press often overreacts about the bullish or bearish momentum behind popular investment themes.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026
When the immune system overreacts and starts attacking the body, the only option may be to shut the entire system down and risk developing infections or cancer.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 5, 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
Sepsis is a rare but serious condition that develops when the body's immune system overreacts to an infection and starts attacking its own tissues and organs.
From BBC ● May 21, 2024
Some analysts say Wall Street overreacted to Bally’s disclosure in August.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
He was speaking after an inquest into the shooting of five people in west Belfast in 1972 found that the Army "lost control" in a number of cases and "overreacted to a perceived threat".
From BBC ● May 1, 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
“I think I overreacted because it was about Kainene.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
As it turns out, those New Yorkers might have been overreacting just a touch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 5, 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
Was Aru overreacting, or was that a definite look of concern on Hanuman’s face?
From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi
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