Thesaurus results for OVERSHOOTING

overshooting

verb

present participle of overshoot

as in exceeding

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 overshooting While some level of concern was justified because of elevated uncertainty, the panic likely meant the move was overshooting to the downside. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2026 Shoppers hoping for a respite from rising inflation were again disappointed in September, as prices ballooned again, far overshooting the Federal Reserve’s target rate. — Kate Nishimura, Footwear News, 14 Oct. 2026 Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board are set to interview the pilots of the Amazon cargo plane that crashed Sunday after overshooting a runway at Miami International Airport and killing five people on the ground. — Manuel Bojorquez, CBS News, 8 Sep. 2026 The catastrophe left Miami’s airport operating with just two of its normal four runways on a busy Labor Day and raised questions about whether the facility needs better equipment to prevent an overshooting aircraft from leaving airport property. — Maria Aguilar Prieto, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026 Part of the problem is that every summer, water pounds down on sidewalks in the Treasure Valley, drops rippling on glassy reflective surfaces, all because of sprinkler jets overshooting the grass and landing on pavement. — Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2026 Podnews calculated that skipping a typical ad break previously required nine presses of the 15-second skip button, plus a correction tap after overshooting. — Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026 Meeting—and perhaps, even overshooting— your daily protein goals are one of the ways to prevent muscle loss while on the drug. — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 16 July 2026 My first few hours with the EM11 NL were marked by overshooting links, fumbling through simple selections, and occasionally wondering why anyone would voluntarily use a vertical mouse. — Sascha Brodsky, PC Magazine, 21 June 2026

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Businesses remained the main source of research investment, with enterprise spending exceeding around $420 billion for the first time, accounting for more than 77% of the national total.

— Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2026
He is also accused of exceeding his authority under Ohio law by failing to identify any statutory or constitutional source of legal authority for his order.

— Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Oct. 2026

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That would see her in the role into January 2029, surpassing Sarah Sanders’s time of almost two years in the job.

— Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026
That’s easily the most for any calendar year since AAA started tracking in 2000, surpassing the prior record of 158 in 2022 during the Biden administration, much of which was attributed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

— Matt Egan, CNN Money, 13 Oct. 2026

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