Overcorrected is an English word. Below you'll find 8 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Overcorrected meaning
simple past and past participle of overcorrect
Using Overcorrected
- The main meaning on this page is: simple past and past participle of overcorrect
- In the example corpus, overcorrected often appears in combinations such as: overcorrected the, overcorrected and.
Context around Overcorrected
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 1 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Overcorrected
- In this selection, "overcorrected" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 26.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, maier, asleep and lane stand out and add context to how "overcorrected" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and she overcorrected and fell asleep overcorrected into the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "overcorrected" sits close to words such as aargau, abacos and abboud, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with overcorrected
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Her tan Ford Ranger continued straight as the road curved to the right, and she overcorrected. (16 words)
She crossed over the center line into the westbound lane, overcorrected and rolled into the south ditch. (17 words)
Maier overcorrected the steering, left the roadway and struck a ditch and then a tree, which overturned the vehicle. (19 words)
Walston was driving a 1996 Ford Explorer westbound on County Road 3420, traveling at a high rate of speed when he went off the roadway on the south side of the road, overcorrected and went into a skid back across the road. (42 words)
When the driver overcorrected, the SUV skidded sideways across the road and rolled an unknown amount of times into the ditch, traveled through a fence into a cornfield and the driver was ejected. (33 words)
A system is said to be chromatically under-corrected when it shows the same kind of chromatic error as a thin positive lens, otherwise it is said to be overcorrected. (30 words)
Example sentences (8)
According to investigators, Isaac Wyatt of Colon, Michigan was driving southbound on State Road 15 when for some reason he crossed into the northbound lane and overcorrected.
Maier overcorrected the steering, left the roadway and struck a ditch and then a tree, which overturned the vehicle.
The Minnesota State Patrol says a car was going west on Interstate 94 near 137th street when the driver fell asleep, overcorrected into the right ditch and rolled over.
Her tan Ford Ranger continued straight as the road curved to the right, and she overcorrected.
She crossed over the center line into the westbound lane, overcorrected and rolled into the south ditch.
Walston was driving a 1996 Ford Explorer westbound on County Road 3420, traveling at a high rate of speed when he went off the roadway on the south side of the road, overcorrected and went into a skid back across the road.
When the driver overcorrected, the SUV skidded sideways across the road and rolled an unknown amount of times into the ditch, traveled through a fence into a cornfield and the driver was ejected.
A system is said to be chromatically under-corrected when it shows the same kind of chromatic error as a thin positive lens, otherwise it is said to be overcorrected.
Common combinations with overcorrected
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: