as in to load
to fill or load to excess
try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems
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Recent Examples of overload
Eugene Linden, Mercury News, 4 July 2025
But with a staffing crisis and work overload, city and county administrators are among the customers who could use them the most.
—semafor.com, 9 July 2025
It can be caused by a variety of factors including sensory overload and anxiety or excitement.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 4 July 2025
But when the two elements combine, the reactor overloads.
—Stacia Brown, Vulture, 2 July 2025
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Verb
Simple issue overload might explain some of the silence.
—Eugene Linden, Mercury News, 4 July 2025
But with a staffing crisis and work overload, city and county administrators are among the customers who could use them the most.
—semafor.com, 9 July 2025
It can be caused by a variety of factors including sensory overload and anxiety or excitement.
—Beki San Martin, Freep.com, 4 July 2025
But when the two elements combine, the reactor overloads.
—Stacia Brown, Vulture, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overload
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Hernandez drove in Betts and Freddie Freeman drove in Ohtani, Making his first appearance since returning from a forearm injury, Blake Treinen gave up two hits, walked two and allowed a run in the ninth inning before Jack Dreyer replaced him with the bases loaded and got the final out.—
Bill Plunkett,
Oc Register,
29 July 2025
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Fitts was removed following the bases loaded escape after allowing the two runs over four innings on four hits, three walks and two strikeouts.—
Mac Cerullo,
Boston Herald,
29 July 2025
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To manage traction and optimize performance, the locomotive design includes the option to add ballast—either by embedding concrete in the floor or installing steel plates—to increase weight and improve wheel-rail contact.—
David Blekhman,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Dividend-paying stocks may offer ballast in times of market volatility, even when equities are climbing higher.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
8 July 2025
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Harris illustrates through many examples in his book that the gap between federal expectations and state action has left 1890 HBCUs underfunded and overburdened for decades.—
Marybeth Gasman,
Forbes.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Jamie Moraga, Franklin Revere NO: Increasing density isn’t the solution and could cause unintended consequences, such as overburdening infrastructure, eroding property values and diminishing community character.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 June 2025
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Ladies paid thirty cents; the surcharge was supposed to convince women that their male neighbors were of the best class.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
23 July 2025
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Though small, this surcharge embeds a kind of solidarity among all insurance policyholders in Spain, believes Francisco Espejo Gil, the assistant director for research and international relations at CCS.—
Christine Ro,
Forbes.com,
22 July 2025
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What is more surprising is that even in the much grander club houses of the Royal layouts and Open venues, stuffed to the gills with trophies and memorable and history, the vibe is exactly the same.—
Larry Olmsted,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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Easily stuffed in your pocket once the sun climbs, these gloves combine warmth, dexterity, and packability for crisp mornings spent exploring the parks.—
Brandon Schultz,
Travel + Leisure,
17 July 2025
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By the time lawmakers voted on the bills in the clean energy package, DTE and Consumers had become largely neutral on it.—
Arpan Lobo,
Freep.com,
24 July 2025
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Nintendo’s Switch 2 console launched last month in two distinct purchasing configurations: One was a vanilla base package, priced at $449.99, which only contained the device itself and no extras.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Politico linked the vaccines' lack of timely shipment to the Trump administration's brutal cuts to foreign aid programs as well as the annihilation of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), which administered those aid programs.—
Beth Mole,
ArsTechnica,
18 July 2025
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Advertisement Trouble arises when one shipment is seized in Florida.—
Time,
Time,
18 July 2025
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Unlike materials like cob, straw bale is adopted in the California residential building code.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 June 2025
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The work there has included arranging bales of straw on the sand, which has enabled native shrubs to take root and begin to keep down the blowing dust.—
Ian James,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2025
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“Overload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overload. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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