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Recent Examples of overbalance
What’s worse, policy is still overbalanced toward power.
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David Roberts, Vox, 18 June 2019
Valcuha and the orchestra brought vibrancy and color to the huge first movement, which can threaten to overbalance the rest of the score if it’s not kept at least somewhat in check.
—Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
Unfortunately the piano tended to overbalance the rest of the ensemble, a problem that might have been avoided had there been a lid on the Steinway concert grand.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
There were moments when De Silva overbalanced Perlman, and a slight tendency with both musicians to rush rapid-note passages, especially in the irresistibly cute Scherzo.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
David Roberts, Vox, 18 June 2019
Valcuha and the orchestra brought vibrancy and color to the huge first movement, which can threaten to overbalance the rest of the score if it’s not kept at least somewhat in check.
—Joshua Kosman, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 May 2018
Unfortunately the piano tended to overbalance the rest of the ensemble, a problem that might have been avoided had there been a lid on the Steinway concert grand.
—John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 Apr. 2018
There were moments when De Silva overbalanced Perlman, and a slight tendency with both musicians to rush rapid-note passages, especially in the irresistibly cute Scherzo.
—Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register, 23 Jan. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overbalance
outweigh
Verb
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Sure there are occasional bad losses like a late-inning collapse in the rain on May 5 against the San Diego Padres or last Friday’s 3-2 loss to the woeful Colorado Rockies, but for the most part the good outweighs the bad.—
Larry Fleisher,
Forbes.com,
29 May 2025
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In 2018, a visitor fishing in the surf at North Carolina’s Outer Banks pulled out a 6-foot hammerhead shark that outweighed him.—
Evan Moore,
Charlotte Observer,
29 May 2025
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“Overbalance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overbalance. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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