overburden

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

Override foes said a hefty property tax jump would overburden residents, particularly seniors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Generally colliery tips were located on steep hillsides, whereas Ffos-y-Fran's overburden mounds sit "on ground with gentle gradients", with differences too in terms of how they were constructed and their drainage systems, they said.

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

I helped my parents carry their tools, and they walked ahead so straight, each carrying a basket or a hoe not to overburden me, their tears falling privately.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

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

Though Strauss treats his voices with more consideration in "Der Rosenkavalier" than in his tragedies, he still so overburdens them that the words are distinguishable only at intervals.

From A Second Book of Operas by Henry Edward Krehbiel

They worry about the proximity to homes; pollution from generators and wastewater; an overburdened electrical grid and higher utility bills; and disruptions to daily life from years of construction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 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

The underlying rationale for corporate tax cuts has long been that American businesses were overburdened by taxes compared with their overseas colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2025

Some said that picketing had become “little less than criminal” and called it the most outrageous of the “foolish, childish methods you have used trying to harass our overburdened president.”

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

However, opponents said the proposals risked overburdening already stretched services.

From BBC ● Oct. 9, 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

There was to be no cutting, nor lashing, nor abusing with overburdening tasks.

From Our World, Or, the Slaveholder's Daughter by F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams