overshoots

verb

present tense third-person singular of overshoot
as in exceeds
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 overshoots Some airports employ collapsible surfaces to slow or stop a plane that overshoots a runway — though that’s considered a back-up option when there isn’t space for the kind of 1,000-foot buffer that MIA has at the end of the runway. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026 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. — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshoots
  1. exceeds
  2. surpasses
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  • Demand already exceeds the available clinical workforce, so time freed from documentation, scheduling, or intake doesn’t have to mean fewer people doing the same work.
    — Bill Miller, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
  • The unit is said to endure 20,000 cycles at a 100% depth of discharge, a number which exceeds the typical lithium-ion warranty by a number of decades.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of exceeds
Verb
  • While debates about building AI that surpasses human intelligence, flashy new gadgets and AI spending tend to dominate tech events, tech talks at last week’s Oakland Tech Week often had a different vibe.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Its best parts have a grandeur that surpasses its industrial settings and gets at something eerie and transcendent.
    — Alison Willmore, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of surpasses

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“Overshoots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoots. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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