How To Use Overcompensate In A Sentence
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Derek constantly overcompensates for his lack of intelligence by proclaiming himself the smartest man alive.
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Trying to overcompensate and give her the things we never had.
GYPSY MASALA
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You guys must all paddle the same and all overcompensate somehow to have pulled that muscle.
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In 2000 the British Medical Association warned that female TV stars often dieted to appear slim on TV, but ended up too thin because they tended to overcompensate for the effects of television.
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Inexperience makes itself obvious through unconsidered and overcompensated design - design that makes up in clutter for what it lacks in compositional sense.
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Because I knew this was a weakness of mine, I overcompensated by buying more science kits and books than one family could use in a couple of lifetimes.
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Has the speed to beat his man around the corner and when the lineman overcompensates to the outside, he shows that swim move needed to break into the backfield from the inside ...
USATODAY.com
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Her obsession with belonging and entitlement prompt her to overcompensate for attributes she lacks.
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So that dichotomy, that -- that, probably, a need to overcompensate for this deep insecurity could contribute to that whole power control debate that we're having right now, if that was really part of his personality that it caused him to decompensate, if there was a confrontation between him and the victim.
CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2009
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Chris is one of those small men who overcompensate for their lack of height with a larger than life personality.
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Increasing the collar settings compensates for the mismatch initially, and beyond an optimal collar setting, overcompensates.
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First Impression: The name Trenton calls to mind a quiet loner who overcompensates for his shyness by acting like a bully and a punk.
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The ill-prepared often overcompensate for these variations with too much clothing or through overexertion.
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You have to overcompensate them for their mentle loss.
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Unfortunately, as was the case in the previous two films, when confidence in witty comedy fails, the makers of American Pie feel it necessary to overcompensate with the smut.
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She overcompensated for her shyness by talking too much and laughing too loud.
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But when nature's protective mechanism overcompensates and precautions aren't taken, there is a danger of blood clots.
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In other words, after the two workouts, your glycogen stores are so depleted that your body overcompensates by loading your muscles with more glycogen than normal.
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Chris is one of those small men who overcompensate for their lack of height with a larger than life personality.
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Just as many of the people who believe in numinous coincidence and supernatural intervention are secretly hoping to prove that it is they themselves who are the pet of the universe, so many of those who overcompensate for inferiority are possessed of titanic egos and regard other people as necessary but incidental.
The Zealot
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Note that at the most negative voltage the clamp becomes unstable, indicating that here the capacity is overcompensated.
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The writer's imagination tries to overcompensate for his creative block by riding roughshod over any possible allusion to reality in his domestic environment.
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There may have been feelings too painful to probe, feelings for which he overcompensated by an excess of not entirely convincing sardonic mockery.
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While excessive weight can lead to bone and joint problems and even depression, our data show that regular physical activity more than overcompensates for a little bit of extra weight.
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Trying to overcompensate and give her the things we never had.
GYPSY MASALA
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And don't overcompensate by eating excessively at your next meal.
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Often when a perfectionist fails to meet a goal - say, running six miles - she'll try to overcompensate by aiming even farther, so the next day she'll try for eight miles.
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Adam starts to lose his mind, Michael is terrified and Edward consistently overcompensates by turning everything into a joke.
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The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs.
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When he refuses to submit and instead responds vigorously, back off quickly and overcompensate for failure by switching into a placatory mode.
Dilip Hiro: Obama's Rudderless Foreign Policy Underscores America's Waning Power
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I think we designers are aware of this messiness, and overcompensate for it by attempting to obliterate every trace of it from our work.
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Trying to overcompensate and give her the things we never had.
GYPSY MASALA
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Resist the temptation to overcompensate for the extremes of one parent.
