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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

Between recovering from her first heartbreak and overcoming burnout from her debut album “Queen of the Clouds,” the remote town has offered her a seaside refuge ever since childhood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 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

By the time his two-year-old season drew to a close, he was showing signs of burnout.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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