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
In Texas, a cargo plane overshot the runway during takeoff and caught fire.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Feb. 2025
Harrison Ford The actor/pilot who is well-known for crashing his plane onto a golf course and overshooting a runway is trying to persuade us to buy a car?
—Paul Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
The space around a runway, known as the runway safety area, is intended to provide unobstructed space for aircraft that may overshoot, undershoot or veer off a runway during landing.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 12 Feb. 2025
Harrison Ford The actor/pilot who is well-known for crashing his plane onto a golf course and overshooting a runway is trying to persuade us to buy a car?
—Paul Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
The space around a runway, known as the runway safety area, is intended to provide unobstructed space for aircraft that may overshoot, undershoot or veer off a runway during landing.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshoot
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Miller appeared in only six of Minnesota’s 12 playoff games, exclusively in garbage time and failing to exceed one minute of playing time in any contest.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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The priciest units sold so far exceeded $3,000 per square feet, a metric used to compare neighborhoods.—
Vinod Sreeharsha,
Miami Herald,
16 May 2025
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Students’ possession of drugs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools last school year surpassed even the 10-year high reached in 2022-23, according to state data released earlier this year.—
Rebecca Noel,
Charlotte Observer,
21 May 2025
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21 May 2025
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoot. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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