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In other cases, you can actually hear what the authors had in mind, which you can’t always do amid overexcitable stagings.

From New York Times • Jan. 19, 2023

She has a teacher’s calm, appropriate to the series’ purpose, and a talent for interacting with sometimes overexcitable puppets; she seems interested in what they have to say, and natural in her reactions.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2021

To an education secretary, he said, “You really are a very overexcitable individual. You need to write out 1,000 times, ‘I will behave myself at Prime Minister’s Questions.’

From Washington Post • May 29, 2019

For the stories that I would write, except that everything was effervescent and inchoate in my overexcitable brain.”

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2013

In E.'s case the overexcitable hypokinetic stage lasted until about the ninth year, and then there was a great improvement, though he still was of the same general type.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham