as in to exceed
to go beyond the limit of
don't worry if you overshoot the length requirement by three pages
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Harrison Ford The actor/pilot who is well-known for crashing his plane onto a golf course and overshooting a runway is trying to persuade us to buy a car?
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Paul Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
The space around a runway, known as the runway safety area, is intended to provide unobstructed space for aircraft that may overshoot, undershoot or veer off a runway during landing.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2010, 158 people died when an Air India Express aircraft overshot a runway in Mangalore, India, and plummeted into a gorge before erupting into flames, according to the safety foundation.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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Paul Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 11 Feb. 2025
The space around a runway, known as the runway safety area, is intended to provide unobstructed space for aircraft that may overshoot, undershoot or veer off a runway during landing.
—River Akira Davis, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
The plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
In 2010, 158 people died when an Air India Express aircraft overshot a runway in Mangalore, India, and plummeted into a gorge before erupting into flames, according to the safety foundation.
—Hyung-Jin Kim and Kim Tong-Hyung, Los Angeles Times, 29 Dec. 2024
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overshoot. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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