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Antonyms for overreactionover·re·ac·tion

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  1. overreactionnoun

    an excessive reaction; a reaction with inappropriate emotional behavior

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  1. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott:

    There was, frankly, an overreaction to the simple fact that someone has to be in charge with gathering and disseminating information, we stepped in to play that role, which is a role to be applauded.

  2. Chief Executive James Gorman:

    ( It's) the topic of the day, the year and the century, it would appear, listen, my view was that there was a general overreaction to the underperformance.

  3. Hans Kristensen:

    We have never been in a nuclear war where escalation is about to happen and early-warning systems are poised to look for signs of surprise nuclear strikes. In such a scenario, a decision by a military power to launch a conventional attack - but the adversary expects and mistakenly interprets it as a nuclear attack - could contribute to an overreaction that escalates the crisis.

  4. Yun Sun:

    This puts the burden on China not to overreact, because any overreaction is only going to push China further away from the world.

  5. Senator Johnson:

    I'm talking to doctors who have, since day one, been concerned about vaccinating people who've already had Covid, because you die, not of Covid, you die of the immune system overreaction to Covid, so there's a concern there.

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