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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of overthink.

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Examples

  • I'm curious as to how the students "overthought" their task.

    Muti 2010

  • I'm curious as to how the students "overthought" their task.

    Muti 2010

  • A lot of the quality comes from not being overthought.

    Surviving the Supergroup Jim Fusilli 2011

  • It moved like every aspect of motion was overthought, like a car with a naive driver.

    It Wasn't Me. Chris Braiotta 2011

  • It was hard evidence of something I'd heard about but never seen firsthand: that college admissions had become absurdly elaborate, expensive, competitive and overthought.

    Q and A with Andy Ferguson about his bestseller Crazy U 2011

  • Obviously they hated Valerie's look (boring, nothing special, no design, no imagination), Andy's (ill fitting, ill appropriate, from top to toe it's a mess) (they also question why the model is wearing Nicole Kidman's boots from Cold Mountain and her hairstyle from Far and Away), and Michael D's (terribly unflattering, overthought, ill fitting).

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway" Holly Cara Price 2010

  • Obviously they hated Valerie's look (boring, nothing special, no design, no imagination), Andy's (ill fitting, ill appropriate, from top to toe it's a mess) (they also question why the model is wearing Nicole Kidman's boots from Cold Mountain and her hairstyle from Far and Away), and Michael D's (terribly unflattering, overthought, ill fitting).

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway" 2010

  • Obviously they hated Valerie's look (boring, nothing special, no design, no imagination), Andy's (ill fitting, ill appropriate, from top to toe it's a mess) (they also question why the model is wearing Nicole Kidman's boots from Cold Mountain and her hairstyle from Far and Away), and Michael D's (terribly unflattering, overthought, ill fitting).

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway" 2010

  • So it makes it very spontaneous at the same time that it's very overthought, you know, and that's a good process for us 'cause we're people who tend to overthink everything.

    OK Go Adds A Little 'Purple Rain' For 'Colour' 2010

  • Obviously they hated Valerie's look (boring, nothing special, no design, no imagination), Andy's (ill fitting, ill appropriate, from top to toe it's a mess) (they also question why the model is wearing Nicole Kidman's boots from Cold Mountain and her hairstyle from Far and Away), and Michael D's (terribly unflattering, overthought, ill fitting).

    Holly Cara Price: Rubbernecking: Project Runway Episode 8, "A Rough Day on the Runway" Holly Cara Price 2010

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