oversensitive
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Automated software looks for moving blips of light, checks them against possible false positives like subatomic particles from space zapping the detector, oversensitive pixels, and the like.
From Scientific American
Judging by the edits they recommended, their actual passion is altering books to suit the most oversensitive and historically illiterate lunatic imaginable.
From Washington Post
But she added that the Biden administration needs to be “oversensitive and cautious about optics to try to strengthen some of the norms” that the Trump administration weakened.
From Washington Post
Sign of an incompetent stand-up comic: “There aren’t any of those oversensitive people in the audience tonight, are there?”
From Washington Post
"Depicting teachers or students as hysterical, oversensitive, or virtue signalling not only closes down the debate, it also implicitly justifies one narrow and unchanging set of views about what education should be," she adds.
From BBC
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