Example Sentences

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But the Finance and Leasing Association, the body that represents the lending industry, has said the FCA is "overcompensating".

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2025

“I pitched through it, and maybe something was slightly off with my mechanics because of it, and all of a sudden the other side is overcompensating for it, and it just kind of popped.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 4, 2023

He is overcompensating for never feeling safe as a child.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2021

Barr is described as supremely confident in his beliefs, which is to say that his overweening arrogance is not an act put on someone who is overcompensating to hide insecurity.

From Salon • Oct. 25, 2019

If it feels like Thrones is overcompensating with plenty of strong women telling crying men to suck it up, that’s because the show has endured five years of criticism for the way it treats women.

From Time • May 15, 2016