overwhelm
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“You do expect strong earnings growth to continue, but higher rates can easily overwhelm that if things really back up,” said Matt Stucky, chief portfolio manager, equities at Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Packing too many circuits into one cell can also overwhelm its protein production machinery.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
Shield adds that you don't want to overwhelm your child with information about school, but get them to a point where it feels "familiar"
From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026
“Macro conditions, liquidity and positioning can overwhelm fundamentals, and bitcoin could fall well below current levels without invalidating its longer-term investment case,” said Silenskyte.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 2026
That, he wrote, “is what is nearly always going on with public parks. Pardon me if I overwhelm you; it is a matter of chronic anger with me.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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For a reader he is like a guest who overwhelms and exhausts, but who is then invited back for the sheer enjoyment of his absorbing tales, striking insights and charm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 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
But both he and Balda know how much medicine the audience can handle in their fluff before the bitterness overwhelms the sweet.
From Salon ● May 17, 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
People smiling at me and saying hello in the halls both overwhelms me with joy and makes me want to flee to the bathroom and hide.
From "Odd One Out" by Nic Stone
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He said he had been "overwhelmed" by the skills and professionalism of care workers supporting his father.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
The attack overwhelmed maintainers of an online service for coders, called RubyGems, and forced them to shut down new account registrations as they dealt with the chaos it had caused, operators of the service said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
I was intrigued and overwhelmed as I tried to make sense of the multiple cities that somehow existed within L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
But it turns out that more screen time is not a great solution to feeling burned out and overwhelmed.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
As if fear had overwhelmed her circuitry so badly, she could function only in her most primitive mode.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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For many Los Angeles families, it’s not one responsibility that is overwhelming; it’s the hundreds of them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
The overwhelming majority—80 percent—of the recipients of this federal childcare credit are single parents, and the overwhelming majority of them are single mothers.
From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026
"A key finding is that global warming and human emissions are now overwhelming the Pacific's natural influence on the Indian Ocean," Ummenhofer said.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026
And even the people who love me can get aggravated by all the ways I’m impulsive, bossy, overwhelming and judgmental.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
As described by William Julius Wilson in his book When Work Disappears, the overwhelming majority of African Americans in the 1970s lacked college educations and had attended racially segregated, underfunded schools lacking basic resources.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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