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Example sentences for: over-reaction

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In the U.K. that would seem an over-reaction, and I should venture to suggest that the quality of the show is more to blame.
Referring in an editorial Thursday to the "firestorm of anger and revulsion" that had followed the recent bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the paper said that this "new crackdown, so late in the day, smacks of over-reaction."