fatigue
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The cost of phone fatigue was not worth the short-term dopamine hit of my bird congratulating me on taking three deep breaths today.
From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026
The Navy attributed the incidents on the Truman in part to staffing shortages on the carrier and fatigue among overworked sailors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026
Vivienne and I both experience joint pain, fatigue, and digestive issues.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Everyone has AI fatigue, and it is too hard to say who wins, who loses and who might blow up.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Olanna poured some palm oil into the cooled mixture and stirred and stirred until her arms stiffened from fatigue.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Some people waiting in food lines say they miss the leadership of a man who bestrode the island in his trademark green military fatigues and whose memory still looms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
Unlike he so often did in the months leading up to the US military intervention, Cabello was not wearing military fatigues.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
Dunne died aged 99 in 2019, but Haywood waited patiently this week to present Harry a photo of her mother alongside him, in his army fatigues.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2026
Dressed in olive green fatigues, Raúl Castro stood next to Díaz-Canel and a line of aged Cuban officials.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 14, 2026
They carried the land itself—Vietnam, the place, the soil—a powdery orange-red dust that covered their boots and fatigues and faces.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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It remains to be seen if these strategies will work—some voters will be energized; others will become fatigued by it and lose interest.
From Slate ● Aug. 3, 2026
"I felt so under the weather, so fatigued and in so much pain."
From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026
Fast food chains have struggled for years to win back consumers fatigued with rising prices and unexciting menus—and then there’s Taco Bell.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Famed as a digital disruptor, Fedorov was tasked with modernising the army, fatigued after more than four years of fighting back against Russia's full-scale invasion.
From Barron's ● Jul. 16, 2026
She sighed, fatigued, and tucked a curl behind her ear.
From "Salt to the Sea" by Ruta Sepetys
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Describing the impact of the bombardment, one Tehran resident said that the constant "sound of ongoing blasts is fatiguing" and energy sapping.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2026
To compensate, he encourages in-person discussions; failing that, video beats text, even if video meetings are fatiguing and can blunt creativity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2025
Using this type of control, the researchers found that muscles could be stimulated for more than an hour before fatiguing, while muscles became fatigued after only 15 minutes using FES stimulation.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2024
There is a relentless, inescapable and, sometimes fatiguing quality to this Swift-Kelce monocultural vortex.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024
It was a fatiguing effort, but on the date set for the ceremony the child was as adept in the ways of the world as any of her sisters.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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