overstress

Example Sentences

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Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2025

“I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point,” envoy Maria Isabel Salvador told the U.N.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 26, 2024

“Now that we’re here, we’re not going to overstress about anything. We trust each other that we’ll be focused in the moment.”

From Washington Post • Feb. 27, 2018

We could say the same of 19th-century ballet — yet that may be to overstress the moral side of these works.

From New York Times • May 3, 2015

In times of overstress and strain, the defective organ or organs will manifest their weakness.

From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence