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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overprotect .
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Examples
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Too many children in this generation are overprotected, over-programmed, and destined for safe, joyless lives.
Steve Nelson: Leave Your Children Alone! Steve Nelson 2010
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The folks at the front lines find that today's students lack the most basic coping skills, because growing up they were overprotected, never allowed to mess up or to experience discomfort, never encouraged to take risks.
Hara Estroff Marano discusses A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting 2010
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Too many children in this generation are overprotected, over-programmed, and destined for safe, joyless lives.
Steve Nelson: Leave Your Children Alone! Steve Nelson 2010
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Too many children in this generation are overprotected, over-programmed, and destined for safe, joyless lives.
Steve Nelson: Leave Your Children Alone! Steve Nelson 2010
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But if you're overprotected with liners and sanitizing gels, you're not exposed to the few germs that might be on a shopping cart, and so you're made more susceptible to every serious bug that crosses your path.
Hara Estroff Marano discusses A Nation of Wimps: The High Cost of Invasive Parenting 2010
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Too many children in this generation are overprotected, over-programmed, and destined for safe, joyless lives.
Steve Nelson: Leave Your Children Alone! Steve Nelson 2010
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Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi argue that liberalization has to be a "big bang" process, because incremental reforms are blocked by interest group politics, as public choice theory predicts. because overprotected minorities enjoy privileged access to politicians, it is no surprise that deregulation incites so much fierce -- and effective -- opposition ...
Tax Reform Timidity, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Steinitz leads his combination with a pawn sacrifice on a square that seems to be overprotected by Bardeleben's forces.
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And yet by sending him back from Jakarta to live with his grandparents in Honolulu, which must have been a wrenching separation for a 9-year-old, she forced on him a sense of responsibility for himself that many indulged and overprotected Americans now lack.
THE PROMISE JONATHAN ALTER 2010
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I was somewhat overprotected and was ok with except when it came to watching movies I was not supposed to.
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