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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Recent Examples of overshoot
The purpose of the pardon is to allow for a fudge when the legal system has misfired or overshot the mark.
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Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
New York, Chicago and LA are all overshot at this point.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
The Boeing 737-800 plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 31 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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Belinda Luscombe, TIME, 23 Jan. 2025
New York, Chicago and LA are all overshot at this point.
—Lynette Rice, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2025
The Boeing 737-800 plane landed without its front landing gear deployed, overshot the runway, slammed into a concrete fence and burst into a fireball.
—Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 31 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 1 Mar. 2025.
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