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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overacts
Verb
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Commissioners’ closest vote involved the portion of the budget legislation that enacts a less than 1% increase in household trash fees.—
Douglas Hanks,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025 -
The rule also increases the maximum annual cost-sharing limitation and enacts stricter income-verification measures.—
Joseph Choi,
The Hill,
2 July 2025
Verb
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Blanc specifically acts out moments from John Dickson Carr's The Hollow Man to illustrate the impossibility of the crime.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
8 Sep. 2025
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Traditional methods might overlook the quiet student who won’t ask for help or the struggling reader who acts out to hide their difficulty grasping the words.—
Haozhen Yang,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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“Overacts.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overacts. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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