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The first time you set up a video doorbell with motion detection, it will likely be a little overzealous with its communication.
THE RING VIDEO DOORBELL PRO 2 ADDS RADAR TO CUT DOWN ON FALSE ALARMSSTAN HORACZEKFEBRUARY 25, 2021POPULAR SCIENCE
She’d scream at me for unpredictable reasons, like making copy-editing suggestions she deemed overzealous.
YELLING AT WORK ISN’T ALWAYS UNPROFESSIONALSARAH TODDFEBRUARY 8, 2021QUARTZ
Recently, he said he asked his children’s pediatrician if he was an “idiot or an overzealous parent” in his push to allow youth sports.
AFTER TELLING MORE THAN 800 ATHLETES AND COACHES TO QUARANTINE, A COUNTY HALTS YOUTH SPORTSOVETTA WIGGINSNOVEMBER 30, 2020WASHINGTON POST
Sometimes an overzealous office-boy would try to drive one of these poor fellows away, and woe to that boy if Field found it out.
MCCLURE'S MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1896, VOL. VI. NO. 2VARIOUS
And even the brain is not so easily cut out, as many an overzealous materialist may think.
THE POSITIVE OUTCOME OF PHILOSOPHYJOSEPH DIETZGEN
Perhaps he was overzealous in the work at times, and if he had spared his strength more he might be still with us.
SOUTH AND SOUTH CENTRAL AFRICAH. FRANCES DAVIDSON
Yet in this case, as in others, insurrections against the sway of scientific truth appeared among some overzealous religionists.
HISTORY OF THE WARFARE OF SCIENCE WITH THEOLOGY IN CHRISTENDOMANDREW DICKSON WHITE
I daily paid my compliments to the bishops, though ordinarily I was not overzealous in such matters.
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAMEPHRAIM EMERTON
He rather resented the way Newell, the overzealous member of the local committee, harried him about it.
SHORT STORIES OF THE NEW AMERICAVARIOUS
I am bored to death with it all and am even now preparing a bomb to throw in this camp of overzealous kin.
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