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burnout

[burn-aut] / ˈbɜrnˌaʊt /








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And so at the Humanoid Games, when one robot sprinter reacted to the starting gun by sitting down, then lying on its back and gazing at the sky, viewers saw a fellow casualty of burnout.

From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026

From a combination of mold exposure and severe burnout from filming “After Midnight” on weekdays and performing in different cities on weekends, she fell ill for months and was forced to take a break.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

She recently turned down an opportunity at another company that would have offered her roughly double the pay when she learned the person who held it previously left due to burnout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

Well, burnout is a way of telling you that your form of activism was perhaps not very full circle,” she continued.

From Salon ● Sep. 3, 2026

I had heard the burnout rumors as just the kind of complaints that always swirl around strong personalities.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover




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