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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

The heavy rains and floods also forced Formula One to cancel this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix to not overtax emergency crews that were already stretched thin in responding to the emergency.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023

Because a labor dispute led to an abbreviated spring training, Showalter has been careful, trying not to overtax his bullpen early.

From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2022

Their innovative approach to pitching led them to overtax pitchers and deploy their best arms in unconventional ways that diminished their abilities rather than amplifying them.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 24, 2021

This result is partly due to a native energy which frequently impels him to overtax his physical strength, and partly, doubtless, to the sufferings and privations above referred to.

From The Canadian Portrait Gallery - Volumes 1 to 4 by John Charles Dent

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

The case is the same with the gymnast who greatly overtaxes his muscle, having foolishly concluded that because he has had some training he can successfully meet the test.

From Power Through Repose by Annie Payson Call

“We continue to believe ENPH’s power management and controls capabilities uniquely meet the complex challenges of an overtaxed grid,” the analysts say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026

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

Finally, the resistance is not being waged only by the small, under-resourced, and overtaxed yet committed group of activists who have been sounding the alarm and fighting the fight in lonely trenches for years.

From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025

The mandate for Disney’s studios “to support both the theatrical window and Disney+ has overtaxed their creative engine,” Creutz, the analyst, said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

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

There are AC window units in each of the rooms and in the living room, but during the day they use only the unit in the living room to avoid overtaxing the electrical system.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

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

In the education journals of the day, there were constant worries about overtaxing students or blunting their natural abilities through too much schoolwork.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell