overuse
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To prevent overuse, it automatically shuts off after 20 minutes.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
And after seeing many young pitchers, some still in their teens, undergo the surgery named for him, he spoke out against arm overuse, recommending less than year-round pitching by young arms.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
LinkedIn is fighting AI overuse with measures including a “seems like AI slop” button.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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 second subsection reviews three issues: the problem of focusing on a description of professional activity rather than an exposition of subject matter, the overuse of apologetic language, and the disadvantages of excessive hedging.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
She also overuses Bartleby the Scrivener’s line, “I would prefer not to.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
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 contradiction of “Abrázame” is that everyone kept telling me that it should continue going up and explode at the end, but I had already overused that device on “Epistolares.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
Other teachers like Elizabeth Kline in Pennsylvania say YouTube is overused to inject personality into lessons.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
A phrase that’s not just overused, but depressing. dead as a doornail.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
“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
"I don't believe this should be considered normal, so I wanted to create an opportunity for our residents to reflect on whether they might be overusing their smartphones."
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2025
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
