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Recent Examples of overachiever
This neoprene toiletry bag is like the overachiever of travel cases — organized, cleverly designed and surprisingly spacious.
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Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
Arjun Malaviya is an overachiever and a planner.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
The overachiever is the Darwin Tree of Life Project, which is sequencing all species in Britain and Ireland, and has contributed about half of all of the genomes recorded by the EBP so far.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Edelman is used to doing extra and being an overachiever.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
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Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 24 Nov. 2025
Arjun Malaviya is an overachiever and a planner.
—Vanessa Romo, NPR, 10 Oct. 2025
The overachiever is the Darwin Tree of Life Project, which is sequencing all species in Britain and Ireland, and has contributed about half of all of the genomes recorded by the EBP so far.
—IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
Edelman is used to doing extra and being an overachiever.
—Jeff Fedotin, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overachiever
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overachiever
Noun
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Saturn in your companionable 7th house is encouraging Pluto in your playful 5th house, so the energy of these cosmic powerhouses should be a little less hard to handle and a lot more fun!—
Tarot.com,
Hartford Courant,
28 Mar. 2026
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Utah is now five points ahead of Nashville for the first wild-card berth in the Western Conference, which would put them against the Pacific Division in the postseason and away from the Central Division powerhouse trio of Colorado, Dallas and Minnesota.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Mar. 2026
Noun
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An early achiever academically, Noor finished high school at 16.—
Hanna Wickes,
Kansas City Star,
27 Mar. 2026
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Among history’s Polish names of leaders and achievers, Madame Marie Curie, the Polish-French physicist and chemist, is a clear favorite from my classroom history days.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Feb. 2026
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The company introduced patent technologies, such as, the electric self-starter, mass production breakthroughs, and automatic transmissions – making modern transportation accessible.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Feb. 2026
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Builders epitomize attributes like risk taking, a sense of agency and a self-starter attitude, says Ritterbush.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
20 Nov. 2025
Noun
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If this unfolds unchecked, a world ruled by superb machine doers could drain life of meaning, beginning with pride in our work.—
Shai Tubali,
Big Think,
27 Mar. 2026
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Even the most avid cleaner and ardent chore doer may not think to wash the drapes.—
Melissa Locker,
Southern Living,
14 Mar. 2026
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The go-getter approach of then-Mayor Francis Suarez also helped.—
Shawn Tully,
Fortune,
31 Mar. 2026
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Offer appropriate praise directed at the child, without bringing up to their go-getter siblings or top-of-the-class cousins.—
Wayne Parker,
Parents,
8 Mar. 2026
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There’s a maddening human truth tucked into the fact that everyone — from Lebedev’s forceful, hopeful young daughter Sasha (Maya Shoham) to the lout Borkin, whom Labbadia embodies irresistibly as a kind of Bronx-y hustler — is drawn to this man in free fall.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
23 Mar. 2026
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In the movie, Kay becomes involved with the young Ping-Pong hustler Marty Mauser, played by Timothée Chalamet.—
Naomi Fry,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Overachiever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overachiever. Accessed 3 Apr. 2026.
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