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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overinform .
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Examples
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“We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization,” argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Harvard-based psychologists and leading adult developmental thinkers.
The Way We’re Working Isn’t Working Tony Schwartz 2010
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“We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization,” argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Harvard-based psychologists and leading adult developmental thinkers.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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“We are already the most overinformed, underreflective people in the history of civilization,” argue Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Harvard-based psychologists and leading adult developmental thinkers.
Be Excellent at Anything Tony Schwartz 2010
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In person, he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul that dwelt within; he was all mind; “Man but a rush against” his breast, and it would have conquered his strength; but the might of his smile would have tamed an hungry lion, or caused a legion of armed men to lay their weapons at his feet.
The Last Man 2003
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Rather, it's our ready acceptance that the past is our only future: that after postmodernism, with its weary, overinformed view that there is nothing new to say, comes something called "superhybridity."
NYT > Home Page By TOM PAYNE 2011
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We're so brutally overinformed about every aspect of every player in the NFL
Slate Magazine Tommy Craggs 2011
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Rather, it's our ready acceptance that the past is our only future: that after postmodernism, with its weary, overinformed view that there is nothing new to say, comes something called "superhybridity."
NYT > Home Page By TOM PAYNE 2011
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Rather, it's our ready acceptance that the past is our only future: that after postmodernism, with its weary, overinformed view that there is nothing new to say, comes something called "superhybridity."
NYT > Global Home By TOM PAYNE 2011
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In person, he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul that dwelt within; he was all mind; "Man but a rush against" his breast, and it would have conquered his strength; but the might of his smile would have tamed an hungry lion, or caused a legion of armed men to lay their weapons at his feet.
I.2 1826
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In person, he hardly appeared of this world; his slight frame was overinformed by the soul that dwelt within; he was all mind; "Man but a rush against" his breast, and it would have conquered his strength; but the might of his smile would have tamed an hungry lion, or caused a legion of armed men to lay their weapons at his feet.
The Last Man 1826
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