overshot

past tense of overshoot

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of overshot The mid-size business jet overshot its landing and went sliding past the runway’s end. Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025 In the city in 2021, however, Kaegi overshot values. A.d. Quig, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overshot
Verb
  • On September 24, Judge Smith permanently enjoined DHS from enforcing broad new immigration compliance conditions on a wide range of preparedness grants, ruling the agency had exceeded its statutory authority and failed to justify departing from longstanding grant practices.
    Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Nike shares jumped in after-hours trading Tuesday after the sportswear maker’s quarterly results far exceeded Wall Street expectations, signaling that CEO Elliott Hill’s turnaround strategy is gaining momentum.
    Jeff Marks, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Notably, Americans’ stock ownership has surpassed that of the late 1990s, just before dot-com bubble burst, said John Higgins, chief markets economist at the consultancy Capital Economics.
    John Towfighi, CNN Money, 28 Sep. 2025
  • What happened then has already been surpassed, as this field is moving so fast that a year is like a decade in many other fields.
    Rick Tumlinson, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2025

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“Overshot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshot. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.

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