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  • noun Plural form of overpronator.

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Examples

  • Seventy percent of the population overpronates, and overpronators should wear shoes with support as much of the time as possible.

    Leora Tanenbaum: Shoes Wisely: 10 Smart Shoe Shopping Tips for the Ladies 2010

  • This is a great exercise for people with flat feet, overpronators, people whose feet splay out, and those with bunions on the medial side of the big toe.

    ChiRunning Danny Dreyer 2009

  • About half of the runners received shoes designated by the shoe companies as appropriate for their particular foot stance (underpronators were given cushiony shoes, overpronators motion-control shoes and so on).

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • Many overpronators, who, in theory, should have benefited from motion-control shoes, complained of pain and missed training days after wearing them, as did a number of the runners with normal feet and every single underpronating runner assigned to the motion-control shoes.)

    NYT > Home Page 2010

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