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overtaxed

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verb

past tense of overtax

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtaxed
Verb
  • Applicants must meet one of 46 distinct eligibility criteria and fill out mountains of paperwork – a long and difficult process for a population already overburdened by bureaucracy.
    Pascale Leone, New York Daily News, 16 Mar. 2025
  • After a mapping campaign in Toledo, Ohio, officials found that the city’s hot spots often overlapped with census tracts identified by the Biden administration’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool as lacking in commercial investment and overburdened by pollution.
    Ula Chrobak, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Pop music, like the rest of American society, has reached the exhausted endpoint of the taboo-litigation mania that’s marred the past decade of our national life.
    Armin Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 25 July 2025
  • You’re exhausted in the morning and energized by the afternoon.
    Kelly Stiefel Arias, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
Adjective
  • Many senior party and military leaders, weary after years of a punishing civil war, were reluctant to go up against the strongest force in the world.
    M. Taylor Fravel, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2025
  • There’s no rest for the weary — or in this case, the Florida Panthers.
    Kaitlyn Pohly, Miami Herald, 16 July 2025
Adjective
  • Fury of the Gods, The Marvels, and Kraven the Hunter — fizzled ignominiously enough to become Hollywood cautionary tales, each respectively furthering the industry narrative that audiences had become fatigued with caped crusaders.
    Chris Lee, Vulture, 28 July 2025
  • Camara looks fatigued and the ringside doctor is checking here left eye after every round.
    Brian Mazique, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
Adjective
  • To anyone tired of dysfunction, this is a new beginning.
    Mike Levin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2025
  • The hollowed eyes and sunken cheeks belonging to Wednesday and the tired girl visage is one that requires the cool-toned products Violetta reached for in her videos, according to makeup artist Lauren Wolborsky.
    Kaleigh Werner, Footwear News, 30 July 2025
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“Overtaxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaxed. Accessed 6 Aug. 2025.

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