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Recent Examples of overworked
Tanya Melendez, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Jan. 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has had to cut flights at major airports to relieve overworked controllers, exposing systemic operational vulnerabilities.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Nov. 2025
Indeed, the long, gliding and kneading strokes warm the soft tissues, release tension in overworked areas such as the neck, shoulders and lower back and have also been shown to stimulate blood flow.
—Daryl Austin, USA Today, 13 Nov. 2025
This will keep the mixing action to a minimum after adding the meat and prevent tough, overworked meatballs.
—Maddy Bendgen, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Nov. 2025
When he’s introduced, Ulysses (Battle) is mourning the death of his father alongside his overworked nurse mother, Amara (Kristolyn Lloyd), and his stern churchgoing aunt Rose (Joaquina Kalukango).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2025
In conversation with Fortune, Zhao said there is ample evidence of workers feeling anxious, overworked, and burned out.
—Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
There were more calls for service than overworked case managers could handle.
—Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025
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Despite being born into wealth, Wesley Evers first appears as an overworked public defender who takes issue with cops not following procedure.
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Gregg agrees that gray has been overused as a whole.—
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Their answers, unsurprisingly, skew toward once-trending hues that now feel tired and overused.—
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The most famous is Bernoulli’s principle, which states that an increase in the speed of a fluid decreases the pressure exerted by the fluid.—
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Guardiola may have defensive injury issues, too, but the respective physical toll exerted could not be more contrasting.—
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This stellar remnant is a white dwarf, the exhausted stellar core left over when a star around the same mass as the sun runs out of the fuel for nuclear fusion and sheds its outer layers.—
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Meanwhile, an exhausted fan base watches on.—
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Investments in tired, overdone hits, such as Transformers, Star Trek, and World War Z, will yield fatigued returns.—
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In the second half of Sunday’s 1-1 draw against Chelsea, City were depleted and fatigued, desperately reaching for the finish line.—
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Our country just invaded Venezuela and captured its president, who admittedly was a bad guy.—
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There’s no way Trump would have invaded Venezuela if that country didn’t have vast deposits of oil.—
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No other text has exercised such an incredible pull on the Iranian imagination.—
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Since 2011, when the fifth-year option was introduced in a new CBA, the previous eight quarterbacks drafted first all had their fifth-year options exercised.—
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That includes fewer tired drivers on overnight routes, more predictable freight movement and potentially safer highways over time.—
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The tired hosts will be delighted.—
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He’s entrenched as Washington’s starter barring any additional drama.—
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And after a decade in Southern California, the Rams have a growing group of former players from this decade who are becoming entrenched in the community.—
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“Overworked.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overworked. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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