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Examples of overshoot in a Sentence
The plane overshot the runway.
Sometimes we overshoot our time limits.
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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
Yet highly active retail traders in aggregate are prone to herding and as a group fast-money amateurs can overshoot and make the tape more fragile at extremes.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025
The purpose of the pardon is to allow for a fudge when the legal system has misfired or overshot the mark.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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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
Yet highly active retail traders in aggregate are prone to herding and as a group fast-money amateurs can overshoot and make the tape more fragile at extremes.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 1 Feb. 2025
The purpose of the pardon is to allow for a fudge when the legal system has misfired or overshot the mark.
—Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
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“Overshoot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overshoot. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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overshoot
verb
over·shoot
ˌō-vər-ˈshüt 
overshot
-ˈshät
; overshooting
; overshooting
1
: to miss by going beyond
the plane overshot the runway
2
: to shoot over or beyond
overshot the target
Medical Definition
overshoot
noun
over·shoot
ˈō-vər-ˌshüt
: a rapid change in electrical potential and reversal of polarity that occurs during an action potential when a cell or tissue is stimulated
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