overstress

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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

Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.”

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

As of earlier this week, less than one-quarter of the hospital’s 115 patients had Covid, but it was enough to overstress an already taxed facility.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2021

I really cannot overstress this: Don’t raise your voice to other kids on the playground.

From Slate • Feb. 3, 2021

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

From Crime: Its Cause and Treatment by Darrow, Clarence