overuse
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“That’s one way that you’ll see a lot more accountability for overuse of force,” Mazariegos said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
To prevent overuse, it automatically shuts off after 20 minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
But drought and overuse have drained its reservoirs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Baroness Shas Sheehan, who chairs the committee, said the overuse of the treatments on household pets was "the equivalent of using a sledgehammer to crack a nut".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
The fourth subsection covers issues having to do with excessive abstraction, including overuse of nominalizations and passives.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Any agency that overuses its water allotment would face penalties, which it would pass on to its customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2022
For this reason, writing that overuses the sentence patterns There are .
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
"Selena + Chef" is an accessible work about process; "Cooking with Paris" is a show pony when famous guests gush over how influential Hilton used to be while she overuses edible glitter.
From Salon ● Nov. 17, 2021
He overuses the sidearm slot, but Lock can whip the ball from funky arm angles like few outside of Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers or Matthew Stafford.
From Reuters ● Apr. 22, 2019
It’s always dumb little things—phrases he overuses, foods he won’t eat, socks on the floor, too much football.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2016
The officer acknowledged the debate around artistic expression, and said the force did not want to "demonise any particular genre of music", adding that the lyrics must not be "overused" in court.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In years past, he said, they overused “kindly,” a word seen in at least one Surfside Beach email.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
“The word authentic is overused, but every time he talks about his love for this state, for his family and wanting to make California work for everyone, it comes across incredibly sincere,” Thoma said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 21, 2026
The bot and the baby know nothing of the world it describes, besides a handful of overused jargon that, like anything, loses its meaning if repeated enough times.
From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026
They may be overused, and often they are badly used, but that does not mean they should not be used at all.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Vice President JD Vance said the universities being investigated are overusing J-1 visas to bring in students and researchers from abroad.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
“If you’re overusing AI, that means you’re not doing anything unique as a human in that process, which means you’re going to be even more afraid of AI taking your job,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 11, 2026
I added in the guideline that we shouldn’t sanction an editor just because they start overusing some words or speaking in what’s “seen” as an A.I.-like tone.
From Slate ● Apr. 1, 2026
My own favorite LLM word is liminal, which ChatGPT, when pressed, claims the “culture” started overusing first.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026
The thing about Mr. Grayson’s open-door Babycakes policy was that none of the kids wanted to ruin it by overusing it.
From "A Boy Called Bat" by Elana K. Arnold
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