overtax
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Data centers that blend into their communities and don’t overtax local resources actually exist, they just don’t make news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
Just scheduled rest for the 21-year-old shortstop, whom Martinez doesn’t want to overtax despite his age.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
What I took most from last season is not wanting to overtax our starters.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
You overtax your relationships, battle exhaustion and your sense of normality crumbles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 25, 2021
The certainty of salary increase year by year and of a pension after the twentieth year will bribe many a teacher to overtax her own strength and to jeopardize her pupils' health.
From Civics and Health by William H. Allen
She never looks less than perfectly photoshopped, but the production ultimately overtaxes her strengths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Venable distills his situation into a scene, which he then overtaxes into a full-scale play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Putting pencil to paper forces people to give spatial information—something that most liars have not prepared for as part of planning their lies and that, therefore, overtaxes their mental resources.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2011
Pidgeon's voice is light and agile -- it couldn't fill up a concert hall, but she never overtaxes herself and instead achieves an understated, coffee-bar intimacy.
From Time Magazine Archive
A farmer has a right to get work out uv his horse; but if he overtaxes the poor baste, the law steps in again and says 'No more uv that.'
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang
And due to America’s aging, overtaxed electrical grid and our continuing dependence on fossil fuels, we likely won’t soon see the kind of five-minute charging now making its debut in China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
“Or maybe they knew, but they said we couldn’t do anything about it,” due to overtaxed resources.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2025
But on a few days each year—particularly during heat waves, when people are using air conditioners—the grid gets overtaxed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom has demanded an investigation as to why the hydrants ran dry, which officials say occurred as water supplies were overtaxed.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2025
It’s critical that we stay within the weight limit, or our oxen will be overtaxed.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
On both occasions, the science demonstrates that humans are overtaxing our oceans' ability to offset climate change.
From Salon ● May 9, 2024
To successfully ramp up Californians’ reliance on electric vehicles over the next decade without overtaxing the state’s power grid, more drivers will need to charge their cars during the day, a Stanford study has found.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2022
But in the Philippines, government officials and parents remained hesitant, with fears that schoolchildren could bring the virus to homes crowded with multiple generations of family members, potentially overtaxing an already creaky health care system.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
"I hope my sister is not overtaxing her strength, so soon after her illness. It would be a great pity if she were to suffer a relapse."
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
