overwork

Example Sentences

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During the conversations with community members, people talked about their financial anxieties, stress due to overwork and the loneliness of adapting to a new culture in a new country.

From Los Angeles Times

However, not all patients benefit, and even those who do may see their response diminish as their T cells become overworked.

From Science Daily

The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.

From The Wall Street Journal

Air-traffic controllers have been overworked as a long-running shortage, which started before the pandemic and was exacerbated by it, has defied several efforts to recruit more people into the job.

From MarketWatch

The FAA said the cuts were necessary to maintain safety as air traffic controllers have been overworked during the shutdown.

From BBC