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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overmilitarize .
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Examples
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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It was a wild overreaction by a paranoid, overmilitarized American state to a single spectacular, but inconsequential, act of terrorism on 9/11.
Simon Jenkins: A Trillion-Dollar Catastrophe. Yes, Iraq Was a Headline War 2010
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By then, Kennan regretted what he felt was the way his brainchild had been overmilitarized, particularly through the creation of NATO, which he vehemently opposed.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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The administration surely doesn't, even though they can't seem to stop citing the 9/11 attacks as an ideological, uh, political pretext for their overmilitarized stance on just about everything, from NSA wiretaps to the newly renewed Patriot Act to Bill Frist's impending GOP run for the White House.
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If anything, it can be argued that much of the very incomplete evidence from the "enemy archives" vindicates the notion that American policymakers at times rashly and needlessly overmilitarized a conflict with an ideological enemy they knew to be economically and militarily inferior.
'The Red Scare': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1999
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Thus they assert that "American policymakers at times rashly and needlessly overmilitarized a conflict with an ideological enemy they knew to be economically and militarily inferior," and that "the Soviet bloc was less monolithic than the defenders of cold war orthodoxy claimed."
'The Red Scare': An Exchange Alperovitz, Gar 1999
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