overstress

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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

Caldwell’s production is a cut above the original off-Broadway version, which tended to overstress the sitcom mechanics.

From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2022

As of earlier this week, less than one-quarter of the hospital’s 115 patients had Covid, but it was enough to overstress an already taxed facility.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

Of course, rest must be taken, and the overstress which caused the trouble avoided in future.

From Papers on Health by Kirk, Edward Bruce