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Unbelievable though it may seem Geoff readers, Kamara has indeed released an album of festive songs but, much like his pitchside reporting for Soccer Saturday, his overexcitement has affected his performance in the charts.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2019

Calibration and the blessing of data are aimed, she says, “at making sure nobody, in overexcitement and not knowing everything about how an instrument behaves, goes off and interprets something that is not real.”

From Scientific American • Dec. 19, 2018

Follow @JamesQueallyLAT for a very confusing Twitter feed chock full of NBA Playoff rants, overexcitement about "Civil War," "Arrow" stuff and police and crime news in the real world. 

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2016

The musicians, drunk on exhaustion or overexcitement, appeared to lose focus, and Gilbert switched from gently restraining the momentum to trying to manufacture it.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2014

She had all the signs of fretful overexcitement, and it was made worse by her long confinement in this stuffy cabin.

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman