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Each new play is putatively the work of the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society, a troupe of overambitious amateur thespians.

He was initially expected to miss two to four weeks with the current injury, a timetable that turned out to be a bit overambitious.

Amazon Care wanted to have the agility of a start-up, but the company was sometimes overambitious about the scope and speed of the operation, three former employees said.

“The word implied something bombastic and overambitious, which seemed accurate enough,” Mr. Tomkins quoted her as saying.

Just ask former President George W. Bush, who led the United States into overambitious wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.