But this same word, when applied to people, illustrates how an "over-" compound implies an appropriate level of some behaviour that has been regrettably exceeded.
We administered our phone survey to this individual, using the same wording each time to ensure comparability across sites.
They say they will not make the same wording mistake this time.
Two items assessing the frequency and duration of resistance training were purpose-designed for this study and use the same wording and format of the Active Australia survey questions.
"Most of these letters now have the same wording.
All the scenarios had essentially the same syntactic structure, the same wording and the same number of words.
Throughout this tournament, the same words have been thrown repeatedly at Gareth Southgate's chicken-chucking sixth-formers: fresh, young, free, untarnished.
According to the Churchwarden's Accounts for Great St. Mary's Church of Cambridge (1504 1635), a church stool was sometimes known in the south-east by the Dutch name of "kreckett", this being the same word used for the game by John Derrick in 1597.
Before I could reflect on this, I saw the same words again, scratched onto a beat-up basement door.
Placed in the context of this new work, the same words somehow shed the burden of high reckoning, and pass into a subtler, querying, rhythmic flow.
