Synonyms for overreact
ˌoʊ vər riˈæktover·re·act

Princeton's WordNet

1. overreactverb

   show an exaggerated response to something

   "Don't overreact to the bad news--take it easy"

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1. President Xi Jinping:

   With improvement to the renminbi exchange rate regime and progress in RMB internationalisation, it is quite normal that China's foreign reserves may increase or decrease, and there is no need to overreact to it.

2. Armando Castro:

   These kids sometimes overreact to the smallest things. Or they keep their heads down and get real quiet. Then I know something is wrong.

3. Mike Biundo:

   We tend to overreact in any direction after the results like this. Candidates and campaigns matter. What is happening on the ground in a race matters. To claim Trump’s popularity and/or his hold is slipping based on last night’s results would be a miscalculation on the part of the pundits and operatives pushing such a narrative.

4. Dusty Baker:

   I think human nature is to overreact, personally. It's sort of short-sighted and you just see the feeling that you have at the moment, right now, what is it, best three out of five now ? We went from best four out of seven -- now, it's best three out of five.

5. Esther George:

   I don’t want to take too much signal from something that could turn out to be noise. I don’t want to overreact to short-term data that may not in the long term really turn out to be significant for that kind of decision.