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- verb Present participle of
overdevelop .
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Examples
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Men feared getting hernias or hemorrhoids; women, if they thought of exercising at all, feared overdeveloping their muscles.
Obituary: Jack LaLanne, fitness dynamo who helped launch era of health-consciousness Patricia Howard 2011
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Men feared getting hernias or hemorrhoids; women, if they thought of exercising at all, feared overdeveloping their muscles.
Jack LaLanne dies; fitness guru helped shepherd in an era of health-consciousness Patricia Howard 2011
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But it can have a serene, rustic feel, due in large part to the way it straddles the Rhine without overdeveloping the actual riverfront.
A Resilient and Renovated Bonn J. S. Marcus 2010
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Changing the light exposure timing until it looked just the way you wanted it to, dodging and burning to correct for things you couldn't solve with shutter speed and aperture when you'd taken the frame, timing the image in the bath to get all of the detail without overdeveloping...
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Changing the light exposure timing until it looked just the way you wanted it to, dodging and burning to correct for things you couldn't solve with shutter speed and aperture when you'd taken the frame, timing the image in the bath to get all of the detail without overdeveloping...
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Mr. Chu is an empiricist: “There are a variety of mashing techniques that will take you to smooth and creamy, but the handheld mixer, used quickly to avoid overbeating and overdeveloping the potato starch, is best.”
One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010
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Sad to say, can't help but think "greenwash" every time i see something like this from a huge corp. which benefits from building over/overdeveloping the natural environment.
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With the death and retirement of most of the "Fighter Mafia" from their Pentagon jobs, the military is returning to its previous unfortunate habits of "gold plating" and overdeveloping new weapons systems, and cost overruns.
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In this heat, that sorry piece of crap built by the former Nazi company Siemans could blow sky high or at least catch on fire, which would shut me down, too, this overdeveloping neighborhood depending on this substation for all the power it needs to keep the pandered to privileged tenants cool in their sixty-story towers.
Surrounded by Insanity The Daily Growler 2006
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The reason those proteins are there is that as the fetus develops, it keeps the brain from overdeveloping, and if the brain overdevelops it would develop tumors.
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