How To Use Overreact In A Sentence
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His casual reaction, "you're overreacting," "these things happen, right?" suggests they've gone through this before, with presumably the more recent procedure she discussed with her gyno.
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But Salmond appeared to concede that he had overreacted in his response to the PCC.
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And I don't believe it's right for the Democrats to kind of overreact to the last election.
President In Photo Op During Congressional Meeting
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She contends that U.S. officials overreacted, rather than dealing pragmatically with adoption procedures in a country where poverty and a long-running insurgency fueled widespread child abandonment, impaired record-keeping, and hampered official investigative capabilities.
Despite Hurdles, Families Pursue Nepal Adoptions
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But I am not exaggerating things, and I am not overreacting to her.
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Consider what he says to her when she confronts him: he admits that he ‘overreacted.’
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Others find this more difficult - they may become withdrawn emotionally, or completely overreact to events.
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Like so many emotions, anger is important to respond to but not overreact to!
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Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
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A parent might even reply that the child is being silly, stupid, or overreacting for what they are thinking and feeling.
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Death or injury by rocket in Ashkelon, Ashdod, and other towns in southern Israel is bad, but - hey - not something to "overreact" to.
Dear Israel: There will be no "war to the bitter end" in the Holy Land - only bitter war
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It was the police overreaction that gave the student struggle its kick-start and helped launch over a year of action.
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He overreacts, jumps up, screams and heads for the door.
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In some instances, this herdlike behavior created overreactions that set the stage for smart Dumpster-diving investors.
Bargain Hunting Billionaires
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One senior official said the key is to neither overreact nor underreact to the midterms but to accurately pinpoint the areas that were truly problematic for the president and try to act on them.
'Soul-searching' inside the White House
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As he opened the box, the father embarrassed by his earlier overreaction.
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When reacting to minor everyday pain, the child expresses discomfort but does not overreact.
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Their public personas as ultraconservatives were, instead, their personal overreactions born of self-loathing - as if to prevent anyone from suspecting their ‘unspeakable,’ opposite nature.
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Lindy Ruff said he wasn't going to overreact to the incident, and even called it "humourous" and that "games need a little spice.
FanHouse
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If you haven't noticed, Heather overreacts, a lot.
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I mentioned in a post on a previous thread of the McCain campaign getting within the Obama decision cycle, where the Obama campaign doesn't know how to react, and thus either overreacts or underreacts.
John McCain approves another devastating attack.
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Many teachers and school administrators regard this not as a kid's overreaction, but as ingrown social incorrigibility that must be swiftly and severely punished.
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The political culture may be overreacting, but it's overreacting to something.
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And it is not just parents who must beware of overreaction.
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Or perhaps it was merely his imagination overreacting: he was feeling thoroughly exhausted.
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If the attack really was the result of a spur-of-the-moment misunderstanding or overreaction, this is by no means good news for the risk profile of the Korean peninsula.
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His weakness is that he sometimes overreacts to public criticism.
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If you work for someone who is so unsure of themself that it causes them to overreact or be spiteful or devious, it's unlikely that you're going to change them.
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These new measures don't make him rock-like and brave but weak, flappy and overreactive.
Times, Sunday Times
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Decreasing this association can significantly reduce an overreactivity to a partner's current behavior and provide a basis for interactional change.
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But there have been counterclaims that Mr Hughes has overreacted and has aggravated villagers.
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My guess is the cop was driving through the n'hood and saw a guy with too much skin pigment for that area, and overreacted.
Police group: Obama should apologize
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This overreaction makes your body produce excess amounts of the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, which can make you hyperalert and anxious.
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Confused and angry, the government overreacted in its response.
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Allergy is an overreaction to environmental pollens, mites in house dust, animal dander, molds, and foods.
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The financial markets overreacted to the news.
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In effect what you are hoping to avoid happening and you experience what feels like an overreaction by others towards your illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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In effect what you are hoping to avoid happening and you experience what feels like an overreaction by others towards your illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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At the interpretation stage, misclassifying benign child behavior as negative, which we term a negative appraisal bias, may also exacerbate one's tendency to discipline in an overreactive manner.
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It stitl wasn't right; she wished she'd been able to find better words to explain why she had overreacted, and nothing she could say would unspeak some of the hurtful things she'd said.
Arrow's Fall
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Some press representatives with whom I talked with agreed that the apparent purpose of this message - beyond the concern of real overreaction - was to divert attention from the belatedness of interest on the part of government agencies and policymakers.
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Without such early instruction, the immune system may go haywire and overreact with allergies to foods, pollen and pet dander or turn on the body's own tissue, setting off autoimmune disorders.
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Still, a political dust-up ensued, as the White House, overreacting to the overreaction of the Democrats, went into full spin mode.
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It all sounds a little "screwy" to me too, but not just because the witness accounts sound as if the marshalls may have overreacted.
Hullabaloo
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Especially since the United States can do little or nothing to affect North Korea's behavior, it would be smarter to "underreact" rather than overreact.
Clovis News Journal : News
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Update -- The paper's use of the word overreact appears to have been misleading.
Josh Nelson: GOP Can't Decide How to Attack Obama Over Oil Spill Response
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It's tempting to take this study as justification for any overreactions we women may have had to insensitive remarks.
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They pathologize and depoliticize her actions, reducing her self-protection to an overreaction to a sexual encounter.
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I hope that this is an overreaction to the years of entryism..
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It's a misleading overreaction that was widely shared by the netroot "keepers of the progressive flame" at the exact same time that Obama was doing the things necessary to win the nom and win big in November (and that could/will have BIG effects in crucial races nationwide including several in Louisiana).
Your Right Hand Thief
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He continued: ‘Don't just overreact to what charismatics or Roman Catholics or high church Anglicans do.'
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This makes them 'sputter' with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.
The Vast Left-Wing Media Conspiracy
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Some people overreacted to what was only a throwaway remark.
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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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The inferences made by the psychologists in your report suggest she is insecure or unsure of herself which is why she overreacts so much.
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One of his colleagues cautioned against overreacting to what he called a tragic and unusual accident.
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But that fact didn't prevent people from overreacting to the hype - even within our own company.
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The emotions are so overwhelming that you tend to overreact.
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The consensus at the conference was that China shouldn't overreact to its recent outbreak of inflation.
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When you're in school now, the overreaction to this and that and the strictness and what they call the decrease, I'm calling the police.
CNN Transcript Oct 31, 2009
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Are the latest wobbles in markets, therefore, an overreaction or a sensible response to genuine change?
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Overreacting with shock when a child uses a swear word is likely to make him use it again.
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Yes, it's possible to hold these views and still behave rashly, or "overreact," as I now firmly believe Gates did.
Norm Stamper: Let's All Have a Beer and Talk Police Work
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I downvote you for being an ignorant, overreacting, emotional wreck over arbitrary ranking.
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The gibes from his own side caused Kerry to overreact.
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I have been reminded that I tend to overreact in any manner that befits the occasion.
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But Mr Abhisit knows that in the calculus of Thailand's political demonstrations, his government would be likely to take the rap for a bloody confrontation, were anyone to overreact.
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Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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The court noted that one defense psychiatrist had testified that the plaintiff was overly sensitive and may have overreacted to events on the job.
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Well, we're in the process now of overreacting to fairly small, possibly in part copycat, improvised and wholly unpersuasive attacks, if we want to dignify them with that name.
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Furthermore, we assessed mothers' appraisals subsequent to the interactions in which ratings of overreactivity were made.
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I am beginning to wonder if any politician appreciates quite how much Labour's laws and its corrosively pessimistic view of society have permeated national life or, for that matter, the way that a culture of fear, encouraged by government and the popular press, leads to ludicrous overreaction on the ground.
So, how do the parties match up on protecting our freedom?
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Okay, so she might be overreacting and a drama queen about this but… whatever that was in that metal box really gave her the heebie-jeebies.
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In effect what you are hoping to avoid happening and you experience what feels like an overreaction by others towards your illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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He claims people overreacted to a few throwaway lines in the article.
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And so we might overreact to this spill, but underreact to the problem of oil dependency more generally.
'Every gallon of gasoline contains a tremendous amount of risk we don't account for'
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DEAR COLD: In my mind, storming out when your girlfriend expresses her disappointment is an overreaction.
Ask Amy
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The NUT was accused of overreacting when it claimed that the deal would mean support staff taking classes.
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He subsequently retracted the remark, admitting that he had ‘overreacted.’
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Of course, conservatives will cluck cluck sadly and say that we're overreacting.
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These results mean that when the body underreacts to stresses in life, it can be just as bad for your health as overreacting, said study researcher Doug Carroll, a professor in the
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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MPC's Adam Posen tells Bank of England not to 'overreact' to high inflation
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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The Captain's civilian lawyer has said the charges were vindictively added as part of an effort to cover up the military's mistake and initial overreaction.
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I may mention that my sister tends to overreact a tad and may at times behave like a drama queen.
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Maybe I'm overreacting to all the reading lists of late, and I'll buy the different audiences argument, but would like to see Van Gelder if it's his call pare things back and push more stories over reviews.
Matthew Hughes's "Mastermindless" and other ways to enhance your love-of-F&SF
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While there is no way to fully avoid overreacting, understanding the emotional factor will help keep fear in check.
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I disapproved of edward's complete overreacting spaz attack in NM where he leaves bella and becomes a masochist in other words, but i don't know if bella was overreacting, too.
Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
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Don't overreact to every bad grade or negative encounter your child has.
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Anything that causes you to overreact or under react can control you, and often does.
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In effect what you are hoping to avoid happening and you experience what feels like an overreaction by others towards your illness.
Times, Sunday Times
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Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
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You must learn not to overreact to criticism.
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It could be that we'll all be very, very sorry the next time the police don't "overreact" for fear of bad publicity and complaints.
The Boston non-bombs.
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Surely an overreaction, there was just the merest nimbus puff floating benevolently by as we left home - it looked a great Sunday for football.
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The key is striking a balance between resilience as a country and overreaction at home and abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
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The key is striking a balance between resilience as a country and overreaction at home and abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
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That said anyone who has been investing for a little while knows that the market often overreacts to bad news and this can provide good opportunities.
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The inferences made by the psychologists in your report suggest she is insecure or unsure of herself which is why she overreacts so much.
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I think people have overreacted to the advertisement - we didn't intend of offend anyone.
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Still, he was so skittish on the subject that she should have known he'd overreact.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Before deciding how to meet this threat, check the soundness of your grapevine to make sure you're not overreacting to rumors.
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WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Warren Christopher urged Congress and the American people not to "overreact" to setbacks in Haiti,
ANC Daily News Briefing
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In large part they've treated the rebellion as a chaotic overreaction, by rural enthusiasts of drinking and abominators of domestic taxation, to a duty that placed new costs on the consumption of a beloved beverage.
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"I just hope that in our effort to clean up some of the worst practices we don't completely overreact and try and clamp down on perfectly normal and applaudable reporting," he said today.
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In responding to the attempted bombing of an airliner on Christmas Day, Senator Dianne Feinstein voiced the feelings of many when she said that to prevent such situations, "I'd rather overreact than underreact.
Terrorism? No Big Deal. Keep Calm & Carry On
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I admit my peevishness may be an overreaction but I'd be interested to know what other people think about this.
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As he opened the box, the father was embarrassed by his earlier overreaction.
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With the above code, we can list the longest of the well-mixed transposals. antiparticles paternalistic conservatoire overreactions aristotelian retaliations obscurantist subtractions definability identifiably arthroscopes crapshooters colonialists oscillations enumerations mountaineers importunates permutations counterspies persecutions capillarity piratically animadverts maidservant calendering greenlandic grandnieces reascending coordinates decorations peripatetic precipitate crenelation intolerance arthroscope crapshooter peristaltic triplicates excitations intoxicates
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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We had a huge argument over something, and I overreacted, causing him to overreact.
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With the above code, we can list the longest of the well-mixed transposals. antiparticles paternalistic conservatoire overreactions aristotelian retaliations obscurantist subtractions definability identifiably arthroscopes crapshooters colonialists oscillations enumerations mountaineers importunates permutations counterspies persecutions capillarity piratically animadverts maidservant calendering greenlandic grandnieces reascending coordinates decorations peripatetic precipitate crenelation intolerance arthroscope crapshooter peristaltic triplicates excitations intoxicates
Wolfram Blog : Word Play with Mathematica
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Our shrewdest move was not overreacting to the bubble or to the bust.
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Seigl hadn't ever been truly unwell: he'd had a fall in the cemetery, injurious to his pride, and he'd overreacted.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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The tragedy in Arizona was despicable, but we cannot overreact or react in a manner unbefitting our free society.
OG Oyiborhoro: Don't Politicize Arizona
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During viral invasion, the body often overreacts with an excessive defensive response, called a cytokine storm.
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Don't overreact to the bad news--take it easy
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Don't you think you're overreacting? I only said "hi". It's not as if we're having an affair!
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You are so sensitive about the age difference that you overreact to every action on his part as an actual or potential sign of rejection.
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Nordea doesn't want to "overreact" and risk losing market share by scaling back lending and closing branches, as some rivals have done, Mr. Clausen said in a conference call.
Nordea Bank Profit Falls, but Outlook Is Affirmed
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For example, when a stray pollen grain finds its way into a hay fever sufferer's airways, their mast cells overreact, spilling their contents in a process known as 'degranulation'.
Undefined
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A lot of Americans are not wildly pronuclear and thought the U.S. may have overreacted in past years in its very heavy-handed treatment of New Zealand.
The Presidents Press Conference
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And it is not just parents who must beware of overreaction.
Times, Sunday Times
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The term panic is almost synonymous in our language with distraught, ineffective, overreactive behavior.
Stress and the Manager
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Their response was an overreaction.
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Seigl hadn't ever been truly unwell: he'd had a fall in the cemetery, injurious to his pride, and he'd overreacted.
THE TATTOOED GIRL
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Still, he was so skittish on the subject that she should have known he'd overreact.
KISS AN ANGEL
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Sooooo "the girl" ends up doing them, and she gets cast into the role of the mother/nag for caring about housework, while he's the cool guy who doesn't "overreact" and also doesn't have to do the housework, and he can just say she should lighten up.
Living with the boyfriend
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It would be unseemly to overreact, but it's prudent not to underreact as well.
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I suspect such a dangerously overimaginative and overreactive, worlds-within-worlds (in one's paltry, overheated head), atmosphere was rife in nuclear-war circles in the early 'sixties, and responsible for placing all of us in the gravest of dangers.
The Worst Form of Paranoia