overachiever

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Recent Examples of overachiever These teams are good enough to avoid last-place finishes, but haven’t developed talent like the overachievers have and don’t spend as the powerhouses do. Andy McCullough, New York Times, 21 May 2025 Humble beginnings Permata, who was born and raised in Indonesia, has always been an overachiever. Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 21 May 2025 The film is a high school rom-com about a bad boy and a type-A overachiever teaming up to win student body president — and maybe each other. Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 May 2025 The Gophers are at least overachievers, and at best a first step in Johnson getting his program on track. John Shipley, Twin Cities, 8 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overachiever
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overachiever
Noun
  • This best-selling Korean formula is made with skin-soothing powerhouses shea butter and murumuru seed butter.
    Clint Davis, People.com, 11 July 2025
  • The Old Dominion is still a business powerhouse, tops for Education, and second best for Infrastructure.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • In contrast to the highest-achieving countries, U.S. performance is lower for both high and low achievers and shows wider achievement gaps associated with students’ socioeconomic status—gaps that national data show have grown even wider since the pandemic.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
  • The couple's friends also remembered them as high achievers who were active in their local religious community while speaking to Leicestershire Live and the BBC.
    Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 16 June 2025
Noun
  • Entrepreneurs can apply this lesson by hiring self-starters—people who thrive on autonomy rather than direction.
    Sarah Hernholm, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • These self-starters are American citizens, immigrants living in the country legally and illegally, and are part of a $504-million industry in L.A., according to estimates from the Economic Roundtable, a nonprofit public policy research organization.
    Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2025
Noun
  • McCardell saw women as doers, and designed accordingly.
    Julia Turner, The Atlantic, 1 July 2025
  • However, these developmentally enabling classroom conditions must be coupled with high-quality math instruction in order for students to achieve their potential and thrive as mathematical thinkers, learners, and doers.
    Linda Darling-Hammond, Forbes.com, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • Ariel Calhoun, 18, shot and killed in 2023 Ariel Calhoun: Woman, 18, was ambitious go-getter.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Zed, Zombies Everything from Zed's leadership skills to his slightly impulsive nature reflects Aries' dynamic, go-getter energy.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 13 June 2025
Noun
  • And bringing all these hustlers together is the greatest con artist of them all – a cunning macaque who feeds on the spoils from unsuspecting tourists.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2025
  • The hustler mentality is big among resellers - talk about that mindset.
    Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 30 June 2025

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“Overachiever.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overachiever. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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