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
Liam Twomey, New York Times, 9 June 2025
After much debate about qualification rules and player overload due to an ever-expanding FIFA calendar, 32 of the best club teams in the world will vie for supremacy over the next month, with the final on July 13 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025
His ability to invert and create overloads in more central areas will be an obvious attraction to Pep Guardiola, who popularised the trend in the Premier League with Joao Cancelo.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Product teams have spent years refining their approaches to prioritization—turning feedback overload into focused roadmaps and aligning work with business goals.
—Daniel Decloss, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Verb
In possession, the goal is for Chelsea to arrange themselves with a three-man defence and a three-man attack with a midfield box between them, creating the possibility for overloads around opposing formations.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 9 June 2025
After much debate about qualification rules and player overload due to an ever-expanding FIFA calendar, 32 of the best club teams in the world will vie for supremacy over the next month, with the final on July 13 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025
His ability to invert and create overloads in more central areas will be an obvious attraction to Pep Guardiola, who popularised the trend in the Premier League with Joao Cancelo.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Product teams have spent years refining their approaches to prioritization—turning feedback overload into focused roadmaps and aligning work with business goals.
—Daniel Decloss, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overload
Verb
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Over the course of a year, the U.S. company imports thousands of pounds of these bearings, paying a tariff each time a batch of them is loaded off a container ship.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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That's why this bill is loaded up with priorities of GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration.—
Allison Pecorin,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
Noun
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One where balance sheets build and their brand finds ballast.—
Philip Buckingham,
New York Times,
22 June 2025
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Race ballast and series-regulation electronics are not fitted, since there are no rules to adhere to, and the cockpit interface has been modified for track day usage instead of professional motorsport.—
Alistair Charlton,
Forbes.com,
19 June 2025
Verb
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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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Some buyers intentionally overburden founders in earnouts, attaching strings to your compensation and making post-sale life miserable.—
David Berkal,
Forbes.com,
19 May 2025
Noun
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Jessica Kaplan from Boston arrived at her bridal appointment to a warning from store staff: all gowns now carry a tariff surcharge of 10% to 15% depending on the designer and their supply chain.—
Alina Selyukh,
NPR,
29 June 2025
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Tipping is a surcharge Forty-one percent of those surveyed felt businesses should pay their employees better rather than relying so much on tips, another 41% felt that tipping culture has gotten out of control and 38% were annoyed with the pre-entered amounts for tips on checkout screens.—
Betty Lin-Fisher,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
Verb
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These flaky hand pies stuffed with sweet-tart cherries are the perfect two-bite desserts for topping off a full Fourth of July spread.—
Patricia S York,
Southern Living,
27 June 2025
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Mensah stuffed his 6-foot-10 frame into it … for 12½ hours.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 June 2025
Noun
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Two Republicans voted against advancing the package: Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who opposes a provision to raise the debt limit by $5 trillion, and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who says the legislation would cost his state $38.9 billion in federal Medicaid funding.—
Alexander Bolton,
The Hill,
29 June 2025
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Senate Republicans narrowly cleared a critical procedural hurdle Saturday evening, advancing President Donald Trump's sweeping legislative package by a razor-thin 51-49 margin.—
Adeola Adeosun,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 June 2025
Noun
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Alexi Rodriguez, president of the Almond Alliance, told the gathering that China had been the top market for almonds until 2018, when an earlier round of Trump’s tariffs cut shipments.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
25 June 2025
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Prosecutors allege that Carvajal played a key role in coordinating large-scale cocaine shipments to the United States, using his official position to protect narcotics operations and facilitate deals with foreign insurgent groups, most notably Colombia’s FARC.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 June 2025
Noun
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And then there were the endless rows of hay bales that needed hauling.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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“Overload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overload. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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