Sentence examples for a thing over from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a thing over" is not standard or commonly used in written English.
It may be used in informal contexts to imply something is finished or completed, but it lacks clarity and specificity.
Example: "After all the discussions, we decided to call a thing over and move on."
Alternatives: "call it done" or "consider it finished".

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Because I feel it's fair to say that comedy has been a thing, over and over again, that deals with a lot of taboo stuff.

It's a doorstop of a thing, over 700 pages.

"To devote thousands of hours to such a thing, over two years — you have to hope that people out there can accept a certain degree of complexity.

I'm on the phone trying to make arrangements for your uncle's funeral, and I can't hear a thing over all that racket!" "Actually," Ed yelled back, "with the way this house is configured, sound waves shouldn't be able to reach you, so I doubt we're being very loud at all".

Implementing unconscious bias trainings at tech companies has become a thing over the last year or so.

Shoes, dangling off of a thing, over a city.

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But as celebrities like Britney Spears and Charlie Sheen have shown us lately, there is such a thing as over-sharing.

There is also such a thing as over-saturation.

But fair warning: There is such a thing as over-doing it.

There IS such a thing as over-conditioning.

There's such a thing as over-reacting when it comes to break-ups.

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