"overdocumented" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "over- + documented",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in New York Times",
          "text": "King, by contrast, is all but overdocumented; after schooling, he went west as a surveyor, summing up 10 years of work in two books, including the 815-page “Systematic Geology,” which told, one historian said, “a story only a trifle less dramatic than Genesis.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 April 6, Dennis Lim, “Much Better Than That Thing With Kevin What's-His-Name”, in The Village Voice",
          "text": "The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.",
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        {
          "ref": "1984, Brian Vickers, Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, page 158",
          "text": "Aarsleff's first published essay on this topic, \"Leibniz on Locke on Language\" ... remains important, despite being overdocumented and awkwardly structured.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Documented to an excessive degree."
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      "links": [
        [
          "excessive",
          "excessive"
        ]
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        {
          "word": "overdocument"
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      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "overdocumented"
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    {
      "word": "underdocumented"
    }
  ],
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  "etymology_text": "over- + documented",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "overdocument"
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          "ref": "2009 March 8, Baz Dreisinger, “A Transracial Man”, in New York Times",
          "text": "King, by contrast, is all but overdocumented; after schooling, he went west as a surveyor, summing up 10 years of work in two books, including the 815-page “Systematic Geology,” which told, one historian said, “a story only a trifle less dramatic than Genesis.”",
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          "ref": "2004 April 6, Dennis Lim, “Much Better Than That Thing With Kevin What's-His-Name”, in The Village Voice",
          "text": "The sterile horrors of the burbs are overdocumented, to say the least, but Perrotta, an expert with precocious youngsters (Election), is never shrill and only slightly vicious in satirizing his infantilized grown-ups.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1984, Brian Vickers, Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance, Cambridge University Press, page 158",
          "text": "Aarsleff's first published essay on this topic, \"Leibniz on Locke on Language\" ... remains important, despite being overdocumented and awkwardly structured.",
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