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- verb Present participle of
overplay .
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Examples
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Malek Boutih, a senior Socialist official and former head of SOS Racism, also accused politicians of "overplaying" their outrage.
Taipei Times 2008
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Malek Boutih, a senior Socialist official and former head of SOS Racism, also accused politicians of "overplaying" their outrage.
Taipei Times 2008
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Malek Boutih, a senior Socialist official and former head of SOS Racism, also accused politicians of "overplaying" their outrage.
Taipei Times 2008
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Malek Boutih, a senior Socialist official and former head of SOS Racism, also accused politicians of "overplaying" their outrage.
Taipei Times 2008
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Malek Boutih, a senior Socialist official and former head of SOS Racism, also accused politicians of "overplaying" their outrage.
Taipei Times 2008
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Celtic forward Cedric Maxwell, applying pressure up high, stayed with him while Robert Parish was overplaying Kareem down low.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Initially overplaying Jordan to keep the ball from him, sometimes they allowed guard Joe Dumars to play him straight up, or run a double-team at him the minute he touched the ball, forcing him to pass to an ineffective teammate.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Celtic forward Cedric Maxwell, applying pressure up high, stayed with him while Robert Parish was overplaying Kareem down low.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Hopefully the corps will continue overplaying their hand, and even more hopefully the electorate will be ready to punish those who get in the way of true reform.
Discourse.net: The Search for the Senate Democrats' Spine Continues 2009
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If you watch a sitcom and see a dumb girl, the actress is usually overplaying her dumbness.
Glee’s Heather Morris on Becoming Britney Spears: I Was "So Nervous" To Sing! 2010
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