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Discover LudwigThe word "overanalyze" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used when referring to the act of examining something in excessive detail, often leading to confusion or misunderstanding. Example: "She tends to overanalyze every decision, which often causes her unnecessary stress." Alternatives include "overthink" or "examine too closely."
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overanalyze
verb
To analyze too much or in too much detail.
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We overanalyze and seek undiluted sexual and intellectual fulfillment, thus setting men up for failure.
"I don't want to overanalyze my own beard, but, I mean, Trotsky had a beard," Rob Dubbin, a writer for "The Colbert Report" and an admirer, from his Harvard days, of the "thesis beard," said.
We sought jurors smart enough to understand the evidence but not so clever that they would overanalyze it; educated, but not to excess.
"You wonder, 'What's going on out there?' You sniff, and then once you're out you overanalyze".
We had every movie ever made available to us to freeze-frame and scroll through and totally overanalyze.
I tend to overanalyze things," he says.
I wouldn't overanalyze it — it's probably just a statistical quirk.
But Mr. Quijano, who, like many lawyers, said he had his own rituals and superstitions — he always tries to work in his Scottish terrier, Watson, when giving a closing argument ("About the only living creature who will live with me," he told the Ghailani jury) — hesitated to overanalyze the situation.
"I don't want to panic and overanalyze that situation," he said.
"Some coaches like to filter the information, so the sailor doesn't overthink and overanalyze," Charko said.
Mr. Whitacre told analysts at a gathering this week that the prebankruptcy G.M. was "overly complicated" and "hamstrung by a tendency to overanalyze and overthink even the smallest decisions".
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