overtax
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The heavy rains and floods also forced Formula One to cancel this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix to not overtax emergency crews that were already stretched thin in responding to the emergency.
From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023
Why overtax the stamina of theatergoers who are still getting back into the habit of leaving their homes for entertainment?
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
Just scheduled rest for the 21-year-old shortstop, whom Martinez doesn’t want to overtax despite his age.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
However, experts believe it will overtax America's health care system because it will infect so many people, some of whom will inevitably become seriously ill.
From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2021
I am sure you will do all you can, but you would soon overtax your strength.
From Won from the Waves by John B. Greene
She never looks less than perfectly photoshopped, but the production ultimately overtaxes her strengths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Venable distills his situation into a scene, which he then overtaxes into a full-scale play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Putting pencil to paper forces people to give spatial information—something that most liars have not prepared for as part of planning their lies and that, therefore, overtaxes their mental resources.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2011
It creates a phenomenal burden to mass consumption and distribution, overtaxes the wage earner, favors the large and long-established industries while sterilizing the young and aggressive ones.
From Time Magazine Archive
Run he must with his human burden, and faster than Americans would care to run without a burden; and the constant strain overtaxes his heart and shortens his days.
From Where Half The World Is Waking Up The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions by Clarence Hamilton Poe
Ms. Medina, playing the flustered, overtaxed Tiphaine, is terrific, as is Ms. Arné, whose Lucie has to toggle from hard-boiled detective to strategy-free investigator.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
“Or maybe they knew, but they said we couldn’t do anything about it,” due to overtaxed resources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
But on a few days each year—particularly during heat waves, when people are using air conditioners—the grid gets overtaxed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Finally, the resistance is not being waged only by the small, under-resourced, and overtaxed yet committed group of activists who have been sounding the alarm and fighting the fight in lonely trenches for years.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
Her voice climbs in pitch, as if she could use it to lend strength to my overtaxed arms.
From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland
Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
On both occasions, the science demonstrates that humans are overtaxing our oceans' ability to offset climate change.
From Salon ● May 9, 2024
There are AC window units in each of the rooms and in the living room, but during the day they use only the unit in the living room to avoid overtaxing the electrical system.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
But in the Philippines, government officials and parents remained hesitant, with fears that schoolchildren could bring the virus to homes crowded with multiple generations of family members, potentially overtaxing an already creaky health care system.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
"I hope my sister is not overtaxing her strength, so soon after her illness. It would be a great pity if she were to suffer a relapse."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
