Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ophthalmol., the conversion of one defect of vision into its opposite by means of too powerful lenses.
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Examples
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The group's president, Alan Rosenbloom , said the move "crossed the line from over-correction into real Medicare cuts."
Health-Care Companies Are Infected by Severe Case of Washington Jitters Melissa Korn 2011
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The trick is doing this without beating the reader over the head with THIS IS IMPORTANT SO PAY ATTENTION, which is my common over-correction in such times.
Story A Day in 2010 joshenglish 2010
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What's followed has been a classic Washington over-correction.
Credit to Obama for sticking with the Middle East. But it's gone very wrong Jonathan Freedland in Washington 2010
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Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable -- Mr. Obama's new "BFFs" -- and others take the position that because the number of manufacturing workers in the U.S. is rising again albeit only modestly and probably only temporarily, then anything more than modest palliatives would be an over-correction.
Leo Hindery, Jr.: The Myths of Offshoring - The Imperative of Manufacturing Jr. Leo Hindery 2011
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A hurried over-correction caused me to run into the opposite wall.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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This may lead to over-correction at times, but it's surely understandable . . .
Daybreakers (2009) Steven Barnes 2010
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A hurried over-correction caused me to run into the opposite wall.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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A hurried over-correction caused me to run into the opposite wall.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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A hurried over-correction caused me to run into the opposite wall.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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A hurried over-correction caused me to run into the opposite wall.
A Book of Miracles Jack Canfield 2010
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