overreaction

[oh-ver-ree-ak-shuhn]

noun

1. an instance of overreacting; a strong or unwarranted response.

Example Sentences

Ritterbusch sees the recent selloff as an overreaction “because the difficult part of the negotiation process lies ahead and it appears that major gaps between parties still need to be filled.”

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Today we discuss Texas, overreaction and the voluminous field of candidates for California governor.

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One senses in these endeavors a not insincere overreaction that substitutes for political action, shifting responsibility onto potential victims and accepting the problem as intractable.

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“I think many of us believe the black-box warning may have been an overreaction to a study that was flawed,” says Fleischman.

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He and other Reaganites believed presidents had been dangerously constrained by what they saw as an overreaction to Nixon’s criminal behavior.

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