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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "overcompensate" in a sentence

    overcompensate example sentences

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    1. overcompensate for the bad food you feed it, it can spend more time dealing with other


    2. all noticed when one allied industry raises prices, the rest overcompensate and double


    3. overcompensate by trying to be a tough guy all the time


    4. The flying men anticipate and overcompensate while trying to align the 3 degrees of freedom of the objects flying very fast in all directions


    1. Is Oprah grossly overcompensated for her labor? What about Tiger Woods, is his labor worth $100 million a year? That isn’t to say that Tiger and Oprah are bad people, or that they're doing something wrong; they’re intelligent people with some outstanding personal qualities


    2. Oreo tried to prop him up, but he overcompensated for his brother’s large mass and the two dropped to the grass in a heap


    3. was overcompensated for by extra helpings of


    4. overcompensated for with his machismo braggadocio


    5. However, the markets eventually overcompensated to a point where option volatility was so low in the foreign currencies that it was substantially trailing futures market volatility, benefiting option buyers


    6. Although diversification achieved by allocating capital among different assets inevitably leads to a certain decrease in expected return (as compared to a single asset with the highest expected return), in most cases this effect is overcompensated by a disproportionally greater reduction of risk


    1. He’s got the second biggest inferiority complex in the world, and he’s wildly overcompensating


    2. “Hold up a bit, you’re overcompensating! That’s far more than I ever let you in, and frankly, those things you should keep private


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    Synonyms for "overcompensate"

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    "overcompensate" definitions

    make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities


    make excessive corrections for fear of making an error