overburden
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In the end, some 125 took the offer, threatening to overburden a corps already struggling to inspect even a sliver of the nation’s 130,000 licensed firearms dealers.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
But critics counter that a potential 50% jump in property-tax bills, even phased in over five years as envisioned, would overburden residents already feeling higher prices for groceries, gas and other essentials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 13, 2026
Haf Elgar, director of Friends of the Earth Cymru, warned it could now end up having to add Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds to its list of sites to monitor.
From BBC ● Dec. 3, 2025
Even so, to overburden a few food metaphors, there are a lot of flavors at play in Healy’s poignant, surreal family drama.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
“We cannot overburden our pack animals; the Princess Eilonwy and Gurgi will share our own horses.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
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He occasionally overburdens the reader with minutiae of political and organizational rivalries and is more workman than stylist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
This simultaneously overburdens and disempowers the lower courts.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
That means tools such as vaccines will be prioritized; but in countries where dengue is endemic, the rainy season completely overburdens their health systems and what they desperately need are treatments, said Crockett.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
Laura Cantrell is an emphatic single-syllable rhymer, a classic-minded country singer who never overburdens a song: Her last album was a collection of Kitty Wells covers, and that’s about as contemporary as her tastes run.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2014
The chocolate is so rich that it soon overburdens some of the organs of digestion, especially the liver.
From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by R. L. Alsaker
"I think the process is for profit, not for justice - it won't actually solve the issue of littering, and now the justice system is being overburdened," he said.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The industry went through a difficult time in the 2010s because of overburdened balance sheets, and now many companies are staying lean to be flexible for the future.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
The trauma center is overburdened and under-resourced, forcing Robby and his fellow attending physicians to encourage their residents and interns to think creatively without losing empathy for their patients.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2026
Still, she added, for the overburdened court system, “It’s a game changer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
Mistress MacGregor was not a bad woman, just an overburdened one.
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
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While the higher price may reduce sales, she says she is considering making small adjustments, cutting costs, improving efficiency and exploring alternative markets to stay competitive without overburdening her customers.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2025
As an advocate for better food in schools and hospitals, she sees her love of “cheats” as a tool to help institutions create better meals without overburdening their staff.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
The coalition warned, however, that doing so could “further marginalize high-risk populations and divert resources from struggling facilities while simultaneously overburdening higher-level facilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
He said $1.35 billion comes close to the city’s need while not overburdening people on fixed incomes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
By way of supplement I wish to state that the reports of travelers and missionaries concerning the overburdening of women among savages and barbarians do not in the least contradict the above statements.
From The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Friedrich Engels