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to fill or load to excess
try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems
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Recent Examples of overloaded
Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
An overloaded dryer leads to lessened airflow and, therefore, extended dry time.
—Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Dec. 2025
This tragedy underscores the extreme dangers of attempting to cross the maritime border in unsafe, overloaded vessels and during dangerous weather conditions.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Nov. 2025
Song of the year was an absolutely overloaded category, with artists including Lady Gaga, Doechii, Bad Bunny, and the fictional band from KPop Demon Hunters.
—Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
As the head of a startup, Wood is familiar with the challenge of an overloaded schedule.
—Megan Sauer, CNBC, 14 Oct. 2025
For years, the power lines, poles and transformers on the aging circuit, known by the number 135-22, that serves his neighborhood, increasingly became overloaded.
—Ivan Penn, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer were notified on Friday of an overloaded vessel with 191 migrant onboard being disabled in international waters.
—Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
Both offer epic burgers, Friday catfish and overloaded sundaes.
—Kat Robinson River Valley Eats, Arkansas Online, 31 Aug. 2025
Pat Harvey, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
The Dutch and British power grids are at risk of being overloaded by renewable power generation.
—Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
Beyond the damage to your things, your washing machine will also sustain much more intense wear and tear if it's consistently overloaded.
—Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
The second cylinder overloaded and self-discharged under the beam, producing more chaotic and unpredictable internal structures.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Dec. 2025
While the gut ends up overloaded with serotonin, the brain has too little.
—Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 8 Dec. 2025
In a recent Instagram post, the singer hiked in a pair of acid-wash purple jeans and a matching bra top and a chain belt overloaded with charms.
—Andre Claudio, Sourcing Journal, 31 Oct. 2025
Your mind isn’t tired—it’s overloaded with unfinished business.
—Lydia Patrick, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025
The company says the modification ensures rainwater drains more effectively and the tent better sheds snow so as not to get overloaded.
—New Atlas, 14 Oct. 2025
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But an overloaded dryer can't do that, and regular overloading will actually knock the sensors out of commission entirely.
—Verb
Cell phone towers may be damaged or overloaded.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for overloaded
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The spacious lecture halls and hostels of the Friendship University were significantly superior to its overcrowded counterparts in western Europe at the time, but discipline was strict and students were strongly discouraged from traveling even around Moscow.—
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Around 14 years ago, Rosenblatt and colleagues discovered that overcrowded epithelial cells are popped up and out of the tissue alive — extruded — to maintain that tissue balance as new cells grow.—
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Certainly Pine’s new boss, Indira Varma’s Mayra Cavendish, doesn’t know and isn’t overburdened with morality.—
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Many, however, were unable to sustain because of mounting costs and eventually became overburdened with debt.—
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Natural-looking, minimally invasive rejuvenation, without the overfilled look.—
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Load Plastics on Top KitchenAid reminds us that plastic containers should be loaded on the top rack, especially if your dishwasher has a heating element (and most do).—
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Once the items are picked and packed in a small cardboard basket, they are loaded onto a drone inside a fenced area in the Walmart parking lot.—
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And for many people, that overcrowded, overstuffed feeling the home can take on during the holidays thanks to all those decorations, presents and food platters, gives way to a burst of get rid of it all!—
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By using overstuffed furniture, this formal living room feels more relaxed.—
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It’s stuffed with a cushy combination of down feathers and polyfiber fill, then wrapped up in lush velvet upholstery.—
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Even the hospitality of sending food home with them was taken away from me, as their refrigerator and freezer was stuffed from their prior parties.—
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And Zermatt itself also has pockets of traditional charm, with streets lined with chalet after chalet and overflowing flower boxes.—
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JPMorgan has even needed to lease additional space to facilitate staffers’ return, renting several floors in the former Credit Suisse office close to the US lender’s overflowing European headquarters.—
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After the Boynton Beach location changed hands in 2021, the new owners discovered that insurance companies had been billed and over 80 patients had been charged for work that was not performed or overcharged, according to the affidavit, many of them 65 or older.—
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Thermal runaway, or self-heating, can occur without warning in lithium batteries as a result of various factors, including if the battery is damaged, overheated, exposed to water, overcharged or improperly packed, according to the Federal Aviation Administration.—
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“Overloaded.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overloaded. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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