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overstress

[oh-ver-stres] / ˌoʊ vərˈstrɛs /




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Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 17, 2025

“I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point,” envoy Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N.

From Seattle Times Jan. 26, 2024

“Now that we’re here, we’re not going to overstress about anything. We trust each other that we’ll be focused in the moment.”

From Washington Post Feb. 27, 2018

We could say the same of 19th-century ballet — yet that may be to overstress the moral side of these works.

From New York Times May 3, 2015

It is difficult to overstress the importance of data from stranded cetaceans.

From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by Caldwell, David




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