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overstress

[oh-ver-stres] / ˌoʊ vərˈstrɛs /




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Sit in the building that originated “The Sopranos” and “The Wire” and you feel a certain pressure to intellectualize your ideas, to overstress your originality.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025

Security Council, “I cannot overstress the severity of the situation in Haiti, where multiple protracted crises have reached a critical point.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 25, 2024

“Now that we’re here, we’re not going to overstress about anything. We trust each other that we’ll be focused in the moment.”

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2018

We could say the same of 19th-century ballet — yet that may be to overstress the moral side of these works.

From New York Times ● May 3, 2015

It is difficult to overstress the importance of data from stranded cetaceans.

From Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification by David Caldwell


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