Synonyms for OVERBOARD
ˈoʊ vərˌbɔrd, -ˌboʊrdover·board

Princeton's WordNet

1. overboardadverb

   to extremes

   "he went overboard to please his in-laws"

2. overboardadverb

   from on board a vessel into the water

   "they dropped their garbage overboard"

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1. Greg Murphy:

   I want to help restore faith in medicine to the American public, i also want real answers. … Did we go overboard because we kept only focusing on one thing during this entire time period? In my opinion, I think we should have had a much more selective approach of helping those who are at high risk rather than just a shotgun approach to everybody.

2. Justice Elena Kagan:

   Whether the item is a fisherman's ledger, or an undersized fish, throwing it overboard has the identical effect on the administration of justice.

3. Hillary Clinton:

   Yes, I know it makes great TV. I think the guy went way overboard -- offensive, outrageous, pick your adjective, but what Marco Rubio said has as much of an impact in terms of where the Republican Party is today as anybody on that stage, and it is deeply troubling. And it should be to the press, not just to those of us who have been doing this work for so long.

4. Kevin Feldis:

   This is the first time we have charged Clean Water Act crimes for an actual discharge of oil into the EEZ (exclusive economic zone) off the coast of Alaska, as detailed in the court documents, witnesses saw a sheen off the side of the vessel after the chief engineer hooked up a pump to illegally dump oily bilge water overboard.

5. Mahmud Rafiq:

   We had very little food, and we agreed that we would leave it for the women and children, then they started hitting us. They took the food. They pushed many of us overboard. They beat us and attacked us with knives. I was hit with a wooden plank on the head and on my legs.