as in to exceed
to go beyond the limit of
don't worry if you overshoot the length requirement by three pages
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Recent Examples of overshoot
After months of questions about whether major tech firms were overshooting AI spending, Google, Microsoft and Meta are taking a victory lap after outperforming investors’ lofty expectations.
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Julia Shapero, The Hill, 4 Aug. 2025
These zones are meant to stop planes that overshoot the runway.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
The attorneys maintained the prosecution had overshot the mark.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
Air India last suffered a crash this deadly in 2010, when 158 people were killed after one of its jets overshot a runway in southern India.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
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Julia Shapero, The Hill, 4 Aug. 2025
These zones are meant to stop planes that overshoot the runway.
—Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2025
The attorneys maintained the prosecution had overshot the mark.
—Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 2 July 2025
Air India last suffered a crash this deadly in 2010, when 158 people were killed after one of its jets overshot a runway in southern India.
—Christian Edwards, CNN Money, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshoot
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Buoyed by those gains, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite secured new closing highs, with the former exceeding the 6,600 level for the first time.—
Yeo Boon Ping,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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Open sources estimate that in 2022, UralVagonZavod produced some 60-70 T-90M tanks; by 2023, that may have risen to 140-180; and for 2024, output is estimated to have exceeded 200 units annually.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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Employee health costs are likely to surpass $5,000 next year as companies see their biggest cost increases in at least five years, according to projections from Aon.—
Bruce Japsen,
Forbes.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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During their 27-18 victory over the Commanders at Lambeau Field, however, the Packers surpassed Parsons’ best-case scenario.—
Matt Schneidman,
New York Times,
13 Sep. 2025
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoot. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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