His life could be summed up in one word: overachievement.

For me to come through like this, it was probably the overachievement of my life."

"Of course," I said carefully, "she does have a little problem with overachievement."

Signs of overachievement are everywhere on the menu, and it is easy to understand why.

And no one's letting him go, not after the tapestry of overachievement he has woven this season.

"We talked about the regular season being a season of achievement, but not overachievement," he said.

In other circumstances, the price paid by an individual for consistent overachievement is thought to be unacceptably high.

Overachievement at football is traditionally way down the list of drawing cards for Northeastern colleges.

Perhaps they were saying goodbye and thank you for a season of overachievement by a team of underdogs.

How to explain all this overachievement?

Steven Chu emerged from a cauldron of academic overachievement.

But, as in any other job, fear Of overachievement was a factor, in this case, fear for his life.

If things get patched up and we get a couple of signings we'll be fine (though last season was an overachievement).

There was not much Mo could do; the man was guilty of competitive overachievement, military style, and had to live with his guilt.

Ours is a society that pegs status to overachievement; we can't help admiring workaholics.

Instead, overachievement was the goal.

As a matter of casual overachievement, it kept slipping musicianly flourishes behind the pop sentiments.

Forty-five victories would be an overachievement.

"Some might call it overachievement."

Mondschein's crime had been the crime of overachievement.

I was suddenly quite glad I had not verbalized my thought comparing Bunny's overachievement problem with little sister's.

Multiple intelligences has been associated with giftedness or overachievement of some developmental areas (Colangelo, 2003).

The Islanders (17-21-4), as their spotty record attests, are capable of occasional sessions of overachievement.

Using the example of some American teenagers, it centers upon overachievement in high school, emphasizing its negative effect in modern American society.

It's the overachievement syndrome where parents in the fast track are pushing their kids to do such nonsensical things as insisting that they read at 6 months.