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
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.
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Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Mar. 2026
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshoots
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When demand exceeds supply every night, the process starts to break down.
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Schwarzschild found a point around a body with mass at which the escape velocity, the speed needed to escape the gravitational grip of that body, exceeds the speed of light.
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Since then, Lebanese health authorities say more than 4,250 people have been killed — a toll that surpasses the war deaths in Iran but in a country 16 times less populous.
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The borough jails won't be ready and Rikers' current population of about 6,700 inmates surpasses the 4,100-bed capacity of the new facilities.
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“Overshoots.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoots. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.
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