as in fatigue
a complete depletion of energy or strength
with all of the work and activity that the holiday season brings, the working couple was on the point of exhaustion
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Recent Examples of exhaustion
Regardless, Bumble has not been immune to the collective exhaustion that surrounds dating apps more than a decade after their heyday.
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
How does this constant exhaustion affect us long term?
—Joce Blake, Essence, 22 Apr. 2025
Overtraining can lead to mental exhaustion and burnout.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The specific exhaustion of being a mother By Olga Khazan
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—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
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Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 23 Apr. 2025
How does this constant exhaustion affect us long term?
—Joce Blake, Essence, 22 Apr. 2025
Overtraining can lead to mental exhaustion and burnout.
—Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
The specific exhaustion of being a mother By Olga Khazan
Subscribe to Listen1.0x
0:009:47
Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration.
—Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 14 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for exhaustion
Noun
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Going on multiple dates with multiple people via apps that are more or less pretty similar is going to cause some kind of fatigue.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
3 May 2025
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The surveys also tested the participants’ psychopathologies, including their risk of common mental health conditions and of specific symptoms, like fear, fatigue, sleeplessness, and inattention.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
2 May 2025
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There are 1,600 years of history to discover in Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, a spectacular megastructure that has survived the collapse of empires.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
3 May 2025
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Before the collapse of the Champlain Towers South Building in Surfside, the condo association had delayed some $15 million in repairs needed to address that building's structural damage.—
Greg Allen,
NPR,
3 May 2025
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“Exhaustion.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/exhaustion. Accessed 17 May. 2025.
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