overloaded
Example Sentences
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The Navy has four shipyards that service its nuclear fleet, and the two that service aircraft carriers are overloaded.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026
He has kidney stones and is often in excruciating pain, but has been waiting more than a year for surgery because hospitals are overloaded and lack basic medicines.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
The system is certainly chronically overloaded, with some of the longest-running trials in the EU.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2026
My ideal loaf is layered: not chaotic, not overloaded, but deliberate.
From Salon • Mar. 11, 2026
And when there was no planting, weeding, or harvesting to be done on the nearby farms, the number swelled to 260, bodies cramming the benches and overloaded desks.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
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