overresearched

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adjective

Excessively researched.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectiveoverresearched (comparative more overresearched, superlative most overresearched)

comparative more overresearched · superlative most overresearched

  1. Excessively researched.

    One senior manager was concerned that gender issues are being overresearched and yet the research findings do not benefit the Kenyan people.

    2011, Jane Onsongo, Promoting Gender Equity in Selected Public Universities of Kenya, page 105
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    Writing music bios is hard — even generous advances have a way of disappearing before the job is done right, with overresearched childhoods and rushed endgames common, especially if the writer has no academic salary to fall back on.

    2007 June 3, Robert Christgau, “Combat Rocker”, in New York Times

Origin

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APA

overresearched. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overresearched

MLA

“overresearched.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overresearched. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overresearched,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overresearched.

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