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"overcompensate" Definitions
  1. overcompensate (for something) (by doing something) to do too much when trying to correct a problem and so cause a different problem

104 Sentences With "overcompensate"

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And I think I overcompensate for it — I think I used to overcompensate for it a lot.
Some want to protect her, or overcompensate by coddling her.
Sometimes these other nerves overcompensate, and the result is tinnitus.
My fear of not having enough drives me to overcompensate.
However, Lowe stresses that the industry must not rush or overcompensate.
Some, like Jameela Jameel, even overcompensate to the point that it's cloying.
They're afraid others don't take them seriously so they try to overcompensate.
And because the coffee's so bad, we overcompensate with sugar or creamer.
Judge Breyer, however, said fees based on the recovery "would overcompensate" class counsel.
I would overcompensate in my behavior by being wild or getting into fights.
To be a successful female, you have to overcompensate and be especially strong.
Me trying to overcompensate for all the other stereotypical behavior I do embrace.
"For practitioners, the laws make them liable, so they might overcompensate," Metzl said.
I'll admit, I used to feel pressure to overcompensate for my plus-size body.
It turns on a dime, and I overcompensate, expecting the resistance of the Adder.
I think we almost overcompensate so we're not judged as being biased toward weight.
But if you're taking shots of nature or people, then it tends to overcompensate.
Interestingly, research also reveals the tendency to overcompensate when there are "safeguards" in place.
However, it tends to overcompensate a bit too much (and too suddenly) in either direction.
Did you react to that criticism by trying to overcompensate or act more traditionally masculine?
Ladybugs have Big Dick Energy because they don't need to overcompensate for their tiny size.
It's a familiar dilemma for women: Should we highlight our gender or overcompensate for it?
Again, The Testaments doesn't go down the route of overly feisty, rebellious Handmaids to overcompensate.
If they only give you 10s, it's very likely they're bluffing and trying to overcompensate.
One is that they could try to overcompensate by going to the gym and working out.
Candidates tend to overcompensate their own boorish personalities with canned lines, forced humor and awkward aggressiveness.
She used to try to overcompensate and show people that she did eat — tons, in fact.
And I had it easy; no turban, no beard, and a tendency to overcompensate with niceness.
Research indicates that men who think they're not "masculine" enough might be more inclined to overcompensate.
Increasing your risk tolerance to overcompensate for a savings shortfall is a very dangerous game to play.
Dr. Paige thinks a special process at the molecular level helps plants that overcompensate employ both strategies.
" Roberts: "What I think I will do is overcompensate on issues that make straight people feel included.
He seemed to understand that the last thing he needed to do at that moment was overcompensate.
Tapping a light source instead of a subject usually makes the phone overcompensate, rendering the shot too dark.
There are also times when I feel like my white partners are trying to overcompensate for their whiteness.
As a young woman in music, Kesha thought the best way to survive was to act tough, even overcompensate.
And then there is the "chilling effect," whereby NGOs are so concerned about violating the policy that they overcompensate.
I'm not making excuses, but you maybe overcompensate with physicality or comedy or timing or rhythm or volume or color.
One parent may try to win the kids' favor or may overcompensate for the perceived parenting mistakes of the other.
But did Syndergaard overcompensate on Sunday, trying to throw too hard to prove a point, and cause a new injury?
The Marvel Theory-Industrial Complex will frequently overcompensate during this process, "finding" Easter Eggs in places where there are none.
Depending on individual factors, you may overcompensate for the lack of morning calories with too many at lunch or dinner.
They were wrong, obviously, but in making that decision, Morin weighed against another undesirable outcome: they'd overcompensate in the other direction.
My dark spots were mostly covered, and instead of having to overcompensate with illuminator, my high points looked dewy and natural.
More experienced liars might overcompensate and stare with confidence, according to The Daily Mail's article on a University of Michigan study.
Women often have to overcompensate with other traits, for example by working harder, in order to be seen as remotely charismatic.
It was really important for me to be there; I overcompensate probably in that way, but I want to raise my children.
The key is ensuring that you don't overcompensate with your own emotions or do something just because a computer instructs you to.
Cries of liberal bias by right-wingers too often causes mainstream media outlets to overcompensate and provide disproportionate coverage to conservative viewpoints.
Maybe I was subconsciously working faster to overcompensate for the lost time, or maybe stepping away from work midday actually made a difference.
He starts monitoring everything about his body in a way he never would have before, although — while that's needed to some extent — it's easy to overcompensate.
Beats has also been taking pains to offer a more balanced sound than those early days when it had the tendency to overcompensate with pumped up bass.
So when you get the urge to chase higher returns and risk your portfolio to overcompensate for not saving, take a step back and a deep breath.
Liars tend to overcompensate for their discomfort by being unusually still, according to an excerpt from " Warning Signs" by Anthony DeLorenzo and Dawn Ricci posted on Today.com.
"Particularly with those of us who are black-identified, we get into the mode of trying to overcompensate to fit in and be accepted," he told me.
Reset  The day after Turkey Day, there's no need to try to overcompensate by eating "nothing but spinach," or partaking in other drastic crash diets, Linn says.
" In her view, having too many options on Tinder to overcompensate for not having had options in the first place may be "a bit of a disaster.
Wartime cowardice made them feel guilty about the Jews, and guilt led them in later years to overcompensate by offering too much sympathy to Israel, which was appalling.
The team is currently studying whether being called narcissistic makes people decide to live up to the label, or if they overcompensate and show increased altruism and empathy instead.
Hannelius) who has a protest lined up for everything, and on-the-fringes Alex Trimboli (Calum Worthy) who has the high school bravado of a teen desperate to overcompensate.
Trump has a way of sussing out a rival's vulnerability and turning it into the kind of insult that gets into his head and makes him overcompensate in humiliating ways.
In "Richard III," he demonstrates more interest in psychology than physiology, exploring how social exclusion may have led a brilliant, ambitious, frustrated royal to overcompensate by exacting a hideous revenge.
And we can't ignore Microsoft's history in this regard: after the chronic overheating issues suffered by the Xbox 360, the company seemed to overcompensate with the Xbox One's roomy, bulky chassis.
As a certified financial planner, I often have to explain to clients why it's not actually the best idea to increase your risk tolerance to overcompensate for a retirement savings shortfall.
Since we cannot know if a woman is going to overcompensate on machismo — as Hillary did on the unjustified Iraq invasion — we may want to look at it a different way.
I spent the formative years of my life surrounded by people who talk exactly as the Mooch does, and overcompensate for modest beginnings in the same spirit of desperation and defiance.
By default, the system doesn't lean too heavily on any one frequency, unlike other on-ear headphones that go over the deep end on the bass to overcompensate for other shortcomings.
It's partly the nature of business: grocery stores are worried about what customers might think of empty shelves and barren displays, so they overcompensate with an abundance of food to boost sales.
A word of caution: Be careful not to overcompensate with shopping or trying to buy your way into happiness; it is common to spend more or eat more when you're feeling emotional.
You just want to overcompensate and handhold him like crazy and throw up tutorial messages, or have BT chime in with 'Hey, pilot, I bet if you did this, this would happen!
He typically pays for the vast majority of our meals and activities, which I feel very guilty about, so I usually overcompensate by trying to pay for everything the week my paycheck hits.
Alex (Miles Heizer) becomes a New Wave-obsessed music geek riddled with guilt for his sins, and Courtney (Michele Selene Ang) becomes a type-A overachiever working desperately to overcompensate for her secrets.
To say that its privacy jurisdiction is well-grounded would be balderdash, although the FCC goes to great lengths to overcompensate for the possibility that its fundamental premise could be undermined on appeal.
Here, I'll embed it again, it's been uploaded to YouTube by dozens of different people: For years, studios seemed to overcompensate for Spider-Man 3's goofiness, producing a flood of moody superhero films.
In a person's vagina, there's always some amount of yeast and bacteria in careful balance, but when something tampers with those amounts, your vagina makes more yeast to overcompensate, which causes a yeast infection.
Curry, Ian Clark, and Patrick McCaw will require help on that matchup, and when Irving gets out on an island against Zaza Pachulia or David West, the entire Warriors team will have to overcompensate.
Disability studies scholar Colin Barnes identified this as one type of the Super Cripple stereotype that can create misconceptions that lead to people being denied services they need, or pressured to overcompensate for their disabilities.
ZURICH (Reuters) - Swiss drugmaker Roche will be able to compensate or overcompensate for falling revenue from patent-expired drugs facing competition from rivals' copies through its new medicines, Chief Executive Severin Schwan said on Tuesday.
As Angelo Carusone, president of liberal media group Media Matters, wrote earlier this year:Cries of liberal bias by right-wingers too often causes mainstream media outlets to overcompensate and provide disproportionate coverage to conservative viewpoints.
Jeremy is very keen about having things feel real and emotionally honest, not having to force "I'm sad," and feeling you need to overcompensate, because otherwise the audience isn't going to know that you're sad.
The self-consciousness around my ethnicity has pushed me to overcompensate by building a brand centered on hybridized experiences as a Chinese-Canadian and on proving that I'm not what this comment says I am.
Maybe they're trying to get hip with the kids, or maybe they're trying to overcompensate for the fact that applying the stricter religious tenets is frankly, not fun, but pastors and pop culture rarely overlap.
It's not all that uncommon for technology sites to suspend accounts for violating terms of service, but a conglomerate such as Google can often overcompensate for bad behavior by punishing people too hard for minor infractions.
"If the muscles are weaker people try to overcompensate using their normal muscles for a certain period of time, after which it can no longer handle the stress/ strain and gives in," Bhatia said by email.
" But ultimately she comes back to it: "I worry that they've been so subject to an attack over decades from the right that there are moments when they intentionally or unintentionally—I'd imagine mostly unintentionally—overcompensate.
The result was a weird mix of songs that either tried to overcompensate for whatever they felt Britney lacks — whether that be vocal talents (fair) or hipness with the young people (Who, by the way, worship Britney.
When Susie's farmer dad (Adrian Hough) suggests queerness or androgyny could be a "personal demon" that leads to dire physical illness in episode "An Exorcism In Greendale," Susie attempts to overcompensate for their own former androgynous style.
It should be said right here, though, that if you are the type of person to overcompensate for your toughness shortcomings by wearing the most vividly effective outerwear possible, this would be the jacket to underscore that.
Some people "desperately want others to think they're happy and O.K., so they overcompensate with beaming too much of a smile, being too bubbly or seeming inauthentically happy so the happiness doesn't feel real," Dr. Orloff said.
LaBeouf revealed that since working on the 2010 sequel to Wall Street, he pledged to go for roles that "chase sincerity," alluding to a scene in which he was being outacted by Josh Brolin and was trying to overcompensate.
One can expect a public spectacle that will exemplify a post-Brexit and Trump-era Europe trying to overcompensate for its dire, lonely position in the world by displaying an outburst of symbolic assertions of its brilliant present and future.
But as if to overcompensate for the stereotypical images of Chinese immigrants — either as dirty, poor, huddled masses or hard-working, middle-class, model minorities — Crazy Rich Asians seemingly yearns for this new label to become a desirable and transcendent alternative.
If we as a sector are really sincere about equity, and not just diversity but equity, that means that we have to overcompensate and give a boost to those organizations that have not been receiving resources for the past 70 years.
Because there's empirical data that tells the story of globalism evoking friction in high society, people feel more threatened and less sure about their future, and they try to overcompensate by clenching to all of those so-called traditional things.
You get insecure, so you overcompensate in the marriage by letting the husband have a say... and on top of that I get insecure as being seen as an ice-cold workaholic mom, so I'm the main caregiver for our daughter, too.
If you know that your Sesame Credit score is partly based on your not buying "subversive" products or being friends with dissidents, you're more likely to overcompensate by not buying anything but the most innocuous books or corresponding with the most boring people.
The employee said this sizing strategy can have some success, but doesn't always work, as the band is sometimes too big and doesn't overcompensate for the smaller cup size — but added they are pressured to use it and to sell bras anyway.
Trump could look to choose someone with a lower profile than Bolton, who was a television commentator before the President hired him, according to one source familiar with the process, who cited Trump's tendency to overcompensate in reaction to events like Bolton's ouster.
"Although I would by no means rule out the possibility that the ECB may once again conjure up an expansionary surprise, in the medium term, it may find it difficult to overcompensate for the Fed's significant scope for interest rate cuts," Commerzbank strategists said ii a note.
This is the musical version of a man recognizing he moved on too fast, picked up a new relationship where his other one left off, and tried to overcompensate throughout it —only to realize he needed to fix things with his ex for whom he still had feelings.
But Hampton certainly pranked the sensibilities of the white liberals he targeted, knowing that they would probably be at once suspicious of him and so ashamed of that suspicion — of betraying unconscious racist undertones — that they would overcompensate and welcome him into their homes, wine and dine him and invite him to sleep under their roof.
The exhibition effectively activates the artworks by using the full gallery space, breaking the works into multiple cases at varying heights and using double-sided frames to show the front and verso, but the splashy wall decals and dark green wall color seem to overcompensate for the presumed simplicity of book works that cannot be held or engaged with fully because they are in cases.
As The New Yorker writer Jia Tolentino put it in her excellent description of Sons online: The large-adult-son meme takes wing from the idea that men overcompensate when they are humiliated, and that a primary source of this humiliation is interdependence—sons act out when they are defined by their fathers, and fathers are disgraced by the oafish flailing of their sons.
Though we are now in a moment where society doesn't necessarily emasculate men if their wives and partners make more money, Wong's need to overcompensate for time away from the home — by shouldering the bulk of the childcare — is not far off from the greater trend regarding division of labor in the U.S. A 2015 Pew study found that 54% of straight couples in working-parent households report that the woman still does the bulk of childcare.

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