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  • One of the supposed pitfalls of L.A. for refugee New Yorkers is that underthinking can become its own kind of peril.

    Co West, O'Brien! 2009

  • One of the supposed pitfalls of L.A. for refugee New Yorkers is that underthinking can become its own kind of peril.

    Co West, O'Brien! 2009

  • Hmmmm, I'd argue that overthinking is better than underthinking.

    Stephen's Lighthouse: Managing Complication 2008

  • As I try to analyze this incongruity, I feel myself swaying between “overthinking” the answer and “underthinking” the answer.

    Fargo Rock City Chuck Klosterman 2003

  • For all fairytales issue first from the primeval forest, thence undergoing their protean transformation; and in similar fashion this story, so slight but so tremendous, issued from the forest of one man's underthinking -- one deep, pure mind, wumbled badly as far as external things were concerned, yet realising that Bourcelles contained the Universe, and that he, in turn contained

    A Prisoner in Fairyland Algernon Blackwood 1910

  • No, you're underthinking it and ignoring the human element.

    "MAIN" via Steve in Google Reader timothy 2010

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