overwhelm

The design tends to overwhelm the drama, like giant swaths of bunting decking out a puppet show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Bright Saver is trying to get UL Solutions, the main certifier, to exempt solar kits under 360 watts, which many experts agree produce too little power to endanger the grid or overwhelm a home’s wiring.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 27, 2026

Oxidative stress occurs when harmful reactive molecules overwhelm the body's protective defenses, potentially damaging cells and interfering with tissue repair.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 12, 2026

As a result, the complaint says, instead of snow in the winter, Boulder gets more “high-intensity, short-duration rainfall events” that overwhelm its drainage systems and cause flooding.

From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2026

They overwhelm us with their chatter;—we understand very little of it, but we listen and the words sound friendly.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

Even here in the relative safety of Annapolis, Maryland, an advancing armada of amped-up college kids overwhelms me.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

That sparks fears of a capital squeeze, whereby sheer supply overwhelms available buyer cash.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

The Sagrada Família overwhelms her with emotion whenever she visits, she said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

Ferroptosis occurs when iron-driven damage to cell membranes overwhelms a cell's antioxidant defenses.

From Science Daily ● May 15, 2026

I touch the top of the backup, and a dizzy wave overwhelms me.

From "The Adoration of Jenna Fox" by Mary E. Pearson

I walked into Farm Rio for the first time, overwhelmed by a sense of kinship and the uncertainty of whether I belonged.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026

You sound overwhelmed by practical, existential, moral and medical dilemmas.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

"I felt utterly exhausted, overwhelmed, frustrated and angry because of those experiences," she told BBC's Morning Live.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

First-time visitors to Paris can easily be overwhelmed by how much there is to take in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Tonantzin placed her hands on my shoulder and suddenly I wasn’t so overwhelmed.

From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall

The resulting fear can feel immediate and overwhelming, even when the person is objectively safe.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The crowd appeared to be roughly evenly divided between Anglos and Hispanics in an area where Hispanics make up an overwhelming majority of population.

From Slate ● Nov. 2, 2026

Our critic praised the movie, calling it “Simmering and subtly cumulative . . . full of overwhelming anguish, buried beneath a masculine stoicism forever threatening to come undone.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

Blumenfield also understands the objection but points out that the ballot already is overwhelming, and that everything in Measure LA addresses a change in governance and efficiency.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

The mental strain broke some, and others opted out of the program due to the overwhelming stress and pressure of it all and chose to work on campus in some other role.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin