How to Use overcompensation in a Sentence

overcompensation

noun

• Porzingis said the right knee injury wasn’t spurred by overcompensation while regaining strength, rhythm and trust in his left.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 19 Jan. 2020
• Sometimes the other side of your body hurts because of overcompensation.
  — Jeff Potrykus, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2019
• Was any part of Prescott’s injury a result of overcompensation to his ankle rehab?
  — David Moore, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2021
• In fact, the bailout will reward the carriers for egregious overcompensation and share buybacks.
  — Roger Lowenstein, Star Tribune, 21 Oct. 2020
• Their previous methods were no longer viable, and team leads were left in a vacuum that sowed doubt and, in many cases, led to overcompensation.
  — Artis Rozentals, Forbes, 10 June 2022
• Rather, it’s built of tension, of bloody violence and of images of a snarling Crowe hunched angrily over the wheel of the sort of oversized pickup truck that basically screams overcompensation.
  — Mike Scott, NOLA.com, 26 Aug. 2020
• After all, imbalance can lead to overcompensation, which can lead to injury.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, SELF, 30 Dec. 2021
• When one of them begins to pull away, Dhont does the audience and his protagonists the favor of making space for the fact that such ruptures are the result not just of overcompensation or cruelty, but of simple growth and change.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
• There is a monstrous fossil big enough to camp in, some battlefield plastic surgery, gigantic holes, a starship shaped like male overcompensation, and cute children.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 27 Aug. 2020
• While the cast and crew were protective of Kasibhatla, Triveni was clear that everyone on set needed to be normal around him without any of the overcompensation that comes from lack of awareness, says Balan.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 18 Mar. 2022
• Overworking one part of the core and underworking another is a recipe for asymmetry, overcompensation, and muscle strains and pains.
  — Amy Marturana, SELF, 16 Sep. 2017
• Or, if the hat is large, a not-so-subtle overcompensation for another kind of male insecurity, this one lower-half-related.
  — Liza Corsillo, GQ, 1 Feb. 2018
• That results in fuzziness with older content, as well as overcompensation on color vibrancy at times.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 8 July 2020
• Carlton’s erudition and country-club style panic Will, whose own approach to Blackness becomes an overcompensation for his proximity to affluence.
  — Wesley Morris, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2020
• Lange is forever rubbing lemons on her elbows or doing jittery calisthenics, haughty with overcompensation.
  — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
• Ken Paige, an evolutionary ecologist also at he University of Illinois and principal investigator of the study, first observed overcompensation in the scarlet gilia in 1987.
  — Joanna Klein, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2017
• As a woman, Natasha has neither Stanley’s societal standing as a man nor his accompanying confidence; here as always, sadism reflects overcompensation.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2017
• Less common, and infinitely more interesting, is the idea that in her anxiety to conceal, her exaggerated displays of affection are calculated to eclipse the intensity of her private world, a kind of overcompensation.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2022
• However, repair and especially overcompensation take time and resources to accomplish.
  — Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 28 July 2022
• The overcompensation — two confetti explosions? — is unnecessary.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024