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More locals are willing to accept development, as long as it doesn’t overwhelm the quaintness of the city, apartment developer Tourtellote said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

The lawyers also wrote that 800 new rental units would overwhelm the area’s sewage system, and that the project warrants a historical review because the Marina Safeway is “one of the first modern Safeway stores.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

They also had lower indicators of oxidative stress, a form of cellular damage caused when unstable molecules known as reactive oxygen species overwhelm the body's protective systems.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 18, 2026

Blockbuster stock sales are threatening to overwhelm the bull market.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

Ultimately, I believe that the similarities between these systems of control overwhelm the differences and that mass incarceration, like its predecessors, has been largely immunized from legal challenge.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

But one way stocks can slow is when new issuance overwhelms investors, as supply outstrips demand.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

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

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2026

Rates may rise even in recession this time, because the supply of Treasury debt overwhelms demand at current yields.

From MarketWatch ● Apr. 9, 2026

The cost of setting up a processing system to recover these byproducts often overwhelms their market, so domestic production likely won’t get off the ground without government support.

From Barron's ● Mar. 9, 2026

Spilled tea—or any other liquid— forms throbbing spherical globs in the air: the surface tension of the liquid overwhelms gravity.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

By 2015, however, crippling anxiety and loss of control left him so overwhelmed that he carried a water bottle everywhere, terrified that he might choke on his own saliva.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Two Auschwitz survivors are still overwhelmed, 60 years later, when they describe finding each other in the Lutetia’s lobby in 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026

"People are so overwhelmed by poverty and daily hardships that many have been forced to put their education, dreams, and hopes for the future aside," Ela from Kabul said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

A pharmacy employee said the supplier had been so overwhelmed by orders that it could no longer make deliveries itself, forcing it to ship the glasses by Uber.

From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026

They thought about going to Julio, but he was too overwhelmed with being sort of in charge during Etta’s absence.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

While Chinese visitors made up an overwhelming majority of the attendees, there were more people from abroad than before, said investor Kang.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

Disney was willing to submit the premature renewal applications, and a flood of more than 150,000 comments to the FCC, from a swath of cross-partisan advocates, demonstrated overwhelming public support for ABC.

From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026

The amount of product did feel a bit overwhelming.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026

"This is so incredibly overwhelming," she says during a rare pause in the music.

From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026

I would like to say I was driven to what I did by some overwhelming, tragic motive.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt