Examples of overshoot in a Sentence
The plane overshot the runway.
Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
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Meanwhile, in attempting to give Grace an even bigger, badder, darker villain to face this time, the film overshoots its mark, raising the specter of domestic violence in ways that feel just slightly too plausible to fit with the film’s otherwise cartoonish gore.
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
Sri-Kumar, whose firm provides macroeconomic consulting, thinks stocks could overshoot to the downside by 15% to 20% before traders step in to scoop up oversold names.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
An overshooting top occurs when a cluster of clouds pushes through the anvil and reaches the lower stratosphere.
—Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
The workers were traveling back to their office after delivering crude oil and other supplies in a farming village in Negros Oriental province when their truck overshot the road and fell into a 100-f00t-deep ravine, police said.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2026
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Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
Sri-Kumar, whose firm provides macroeconomic consulting, thinks stocks could overshoot to the downside by 15% to 20% before traders step in to scoop up oversold names.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 11 Mar. 2026
An overshooting top occurs when a cluster of clouds pushes through the anvil and reaches the lower stratosphere.
—Mary Wasson, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
The workers were traveling back to their office after delivering crude oil and other supplies in a farming village in Negros Oriental province when their truck overshot the road and fell into a 100-f00t-deep ravine, police said.
—Arkansas Online, 5 Feb. 2026
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overshoot. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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overshoot
verb
over·shoot
ˌō-vər-ˈshüt 
overshot
-ˈshät
; overshooting
; overshooting
1
: to miss by going beyond
the plane overshot the runway
2
: to shoot over or beyond
overshot the target
Medical Definition
overshoot
noun
over·shoot
ˈō-vər-ˌshüt
: a rapid change in electrical potential and reversal of polarity that occurs during an action potential when a cell or tissue is stimulated
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