How to Use overanalyze in a Sentence

overanalyze

verb
  • Van Pelt urged him not to overanalyze the misses and to keep forging ahead.
    Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland, 7 Dec. 2020
  • But in the spirit of the tradition of the French decorative arts, the point is not to overanalyze -- and enjoy the show.
    CNN, 30 Dec. 2021
  • But that hasn’t stopped her fans from overanalyzing the song choices.
    Abigail Covington, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Our instinct to overanalyze every move of the world's most famous couple was not in vain.
    Sam Reed, Glamour, 7 July 2022
  • The Art and Science of Mom, urges parents not to overanalyze their children’s pandemic-era play.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2021
  • At the national scouting combine, which starts next week, the skill sets of the quarterbacks will be overanalyzed, as usual.
    Dallas News, 23 Feb. 2023
  • With a Virgo pair, there might be a tendency to overanalyze challenges within the relationship, says Lang.
    Naydeline Mejia, Women's Health, 3 Mar. 2023
  • This gave us time to overanalyze the main characters’ equipment decisions.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Be present: Appreciate the present experience to avoid worrying about the future or overanalyzing the past.
    Dominique Fluker, Essence, 17 Aug. 2023
  • With still a month to go before the July 22 release of Jordan Peele’s Nope, every new clip is an opportunity to overanalyze for hints about the auteur’s cryptic upcoming feature.
    Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2022
  • That’s not a natural tendency for many, particularly type-A perfectionists who tend to look for warts and overanalyze the failures.
    Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2021
  • Trump’s calls for protest, combined with the American media’s feverish obsession with the horse race, has led to a surreal situation in which the extent of the violence that greets his arrest will almost certainly be overanalyzed in electoral terms.
    Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, pick another vendor and don’t overanalyze the decision.
    Eric Allais, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Here, the cinematic parallels are even stronger, as Barbie’s script winkingly encourages us not to overanalyze the concept, which is exactly how Nolan has managed to vanquish our disbelief in things like dream-hacking and time inversion.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • Apprehensiveness leads us to oversaturate ourselves with excess information and to overanalyze every single available option.
    Luis E. Romero, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021

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