overburden
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In the end, some 125 took the offer, threatening to overburden a corps already struggling to inspect even a sliver of the nation’s 130,000 licensed firearms dealers.
From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026
Override foes said a hefty property tax jump would overburden residents, particularly seniors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
People, the report says, were deterred from accessing health care because they did not want to overburden the NHS.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2026
Even so, to overburden a few food metaphors, there are a lot of flavors at play in Healy’s poignant, surreal family drama.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023
“We cannot overburden our pack animals; the Princess Eilonwy and Gurgi will share our own horses.”
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
He occasionally overburdens the reader with minutiae of political and organizational rivalries and is more workman than stylist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 23, 2026
This simultaneously overburdens and disempowers the lower courts.
From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2025
That means tools such as vaccines will be prioritized; but in countries where dengue is endemic, the rainy season completely overburdens their health systems and what they desperately need are treatments, said Crockett.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 4, 2023
Laura Cantrell is an emphatic single-syllable rhymer, a classic-minded country singer who never overburdens a song: Her last album was a collection of Kitty Wells covers, and that’s about as contemporary as her tastes run.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2014
In conferring grades and passing examinations, it arranges and overburdens the school program of study; hence, it incites in others what it practices at home, the over-training of youth, and a factitious, hot-house education.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John
The industry went through a difficult time in the 2010s because of overburdened balance sheets, and now many companies are staying lean to be flexible for the future.
From Barron's ● Apr. 22, 2026
Still, she added, for the overburdened court system, “It’s a game changer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
But Ms Dabula says the public health system, which caters for almost 85% of the population, is overburdened.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2025
Drug companies launched these discount sites for uninsured patients years ago, hoping to foster the impression that they cared about patients overburdened by their list prices.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2025
My mother told me that that could not be, that Granny was already overburdened with looking after herself and her other children and could not afford to take us in.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
However, opponents said the proposals risked overburdening already stretched services.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2025
As an advocate for better food in schools and hospitals, she sees her love of “cheats” as a tool to help institutions create better meals without overburdening their staff.
From Salon ● Dec. 9, 2024
The coalition warned, however, that doing so could “further marginalize high-risk populations and divert resources from struggling facilities while simultaneously overburdening higher-level facilities.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2024
He said $1.35 billion comes close to the city’s need while not overburdening people on fixed incomes.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 4, 2024
And so with a wonderful talent for selecting typical and essential facts and not overburdening his narrative with detail he leads us down the ages.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 by Various
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