overstress

Example Sentences

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“The timing of that kind of stuff prior to deployment is really, really problematic and just overstresses an already stressed system.”

From Science Magazine • Feb. 23, 2023

It's a fascinating debate, but I feel Prebble overstresses the parallels between the two couples.

From The Guardian • Nov. 14, 2012

In his last chapter, Roth assesses the current state of higher education, which on the whole overstresses autonomy and economic advancement.

From Washington Post

That few do � and fewer still do well � may be the fault of formal education, which overstresses the discipline of sequential facts.

From Time Magazine Archive

Nor has any one a right to say that he overdoes or overstresses their wickedness a jot: he merely shows it, or rather lets them show it, just as it is.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman