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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According to Garber, the Trump administration violated Harvard’s First Amendment rights with its demands and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.—
Kayla Jimenez,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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Today, a total of five firms hold significant shares in the defense market, each with annual revenue that exceeds $10 billion.—
MICHAEL BROWN,
Foreign Affairs,
22 Apr. 2025
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Sunday’s race is expected to set the record for the most participants in a marathon, surpassing the 55,646 finishers at last year’s New York City Marathon.—
Issy Ronald,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2025
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Saturday’s 37-point defeat marks the Heat’s most lopsided playoff loss in franchise history, surpassing a 36-point loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 3 of the 2013 NBA Finals on June 11, 2013.—
Anthony Chiang,
Miami Herald,
26 Apr. 2025
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoot. Accessed 4 May. 2025.
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