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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overblow .
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Examples
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My gut feeling is that as usual the media overblows everything and that its not as bad a they make it seem, but on the other hand …
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My mom, with her anxiety issues, occasionally overblows situations.
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When the media overblows public perception about a candidate's invulnerability and inevitability it has its benefits, but it can also create vulnerabilities.
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The saxophone, on the other hand, is a conical tube, and overblows an octave.
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Since it is a cylindrical tube, the clarinet overblows a twelfth rather than octave.
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When the media overblows public perception about a candidate's invulnerability and inevitability it has its benefits, but it can also create vulnerabilities.
Poll: Hillary Way Ahead ��� And More People Think She'll Win 2009
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The flute, for example, is also cylindrical, but, being acoustically an open tube, overblows to the octave.
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My observation here is that in general the SP response overblows her tone and expresses more a predisposition to not like the candidate, than it does the candidate.
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But he said Grendell's estimate likely overblows the cost by using a high-end estimate of $3,000 for each sign, assuming two signs per work zone, and applying that $6,000 cost to every one of Ohio's stimulus road projects.
daytondailynews.com - News JULIE CARR SMYTH 2010
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But he said Grendell's estimate likely overblows the cost by using a high-end estimate of $3,000 for each sign, assuming two signs per work zone, and applying that $6,000 cost to every one of Ohio's stimulus road projects.
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