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Recent Examples of overemotional
Yes, that was Mother in a nutshell, or a caul: an overemotional territory with no boundaries whatsoever.
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Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Will Self, Harper's Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
West threatened a lawsuit over his portrayal as an overemotional, insecure, and miserable executive still haunted by his six losses to the Celtics in the Finals.
—Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overemotional
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Waves of trilobite extinctions swept the oceans, and an ancient planet better known for its explosion of life now saw the ambition of this frenzied new animal world periodically stifled under a high-CO2 hothouse.—
Peter Brannen,
Quanta Magazine,
15 Sep. 2025
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McCann went missing on May 3, 2007 while on holiday with her family in the Algarve town of Praia da Luz, sparking a frenzied search and gaining the attention of the world’s media.—
Reuters 22 hr ago,
CNN Money,
15 Sep. 2025
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With his skin ripped, sucked, and absorbed in countless different directions by the cannibalistic and orgiastic elite, Bill’s friend and eventual shunting victim David Blanchard (Tim Bartell) embodies a literal argument against gerrymandering.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
4 July 2025
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But deeper in, percussion livens up under orgiastic shrieks and a cameo on guitar from Adam Granduciel of the War on Drugs.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
3 June 2025
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Last Thursday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told reporters at a private dinner that investors are overexcited about AI models.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
21 Aug. 2025
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Calm restored in the Treasury market, yields settling back slightly to quiet the overexcited talk about fiscal fissures.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
2 June 2025
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That’s been a beautiful part of our relationship that has been new and uninhibited.—
Maggie Ryan,
Flow Space,
10 Sep. 2025
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And, Hanson might have added, huge, enormous, uninhibited fun.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
5 Sep. 2025
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Capital Keeps Flowing Into AI And Cybersecurity When asked why Glilot chose this moment to raise such a large pool of capital, Samboursky acknowledged the overheated chatter but pushed back on the idea of retreat.—
Kolawole Samuel Adebayo,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Reflecting the mixed internal action and the overheated/overbought state of the tape exiting July, the S & P 500 has slowed, flattened out and cooled over the past five or six weeks.—
Michael Santoli,
CNBC,
9 Sep. 2025
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There’s an awkward mix of comic highjinks and violence, melodramatic moments, dead spots and repetition.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Sep. 2025
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As is, the film is somehow both glancing and melodramatic, a strange and underwhelming cocktail of blasé Euro sleekness and TV-movie drama.—
Richard Lawson,
IndieWire,
7 Sep. 2025
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As bills were called up for debate, members lined up to ask questions about them, and the questions were often laden with histrionic and hyperbolic language.—
John C. Moritz,
Austin American Statesman,
30 July 2025
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Populated by unhinged men and masochistic women, and punctuated by fiery, increasingly histrionic set pieces, Smoke fails to reconcile its mood of noirish nihilism with its efforts at social commentary.—
Judy Berman,
Time,
27 June 2025
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Taylor Swift premiered her Eras Tour movie at The Grove, where events including an annual Christmas tree lighting draw enthusiastic crowds.—
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson,
semafor.com,
19 Sep. 2025
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Although some on the committee seemed enthusiastic about pushing the first dose recommendation for hepatitis B from birth to 1 month of age, after some discussion, there was a revolt against tackling the issue at all.—
Will Stone,
NPR,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Overemotional.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overemotional. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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