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overthink

/ ˌəʊəˈθɪŋ /

verb

  1. to spend more time thinking about something than is necessary or productive
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Maybe that says more about my play style than anything else, but it also means that I like having to overthink things — including unsettling moral dilemmas, which leads me to Abby and her revenge tour.

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Give me a gauge any day — one less thing for me to overthink.

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“Sometimes you can overthink things. I used to think, coming from the theater, that if you have all the time in the world, you’ll get the perfect moment. And then you just string those perfect moments together. A lot of films, they have all the money and time in the world, and all the life gets leeched out of them, which is not the case for Steven.”

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Smutko tries not to "overthink" what she does, but believes it is important to share the effects of the war with the world.

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It’s the type of journaling you don’t have to overthink.

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