Examples of burnout in a Sentence

Noun Teaching can be very stressful, and many teachers eventually suffer burnout. the burnout rate among teachers a novel about academic burnouts Verb working 12-hour days at that job just burned me out

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun Widespread emotional burnout, brought on by overwork and exacerbated by the pandemic, has forced employers to accept that mental health cannot be ignored in the workplace. — Catherine Wang, Forbes, 4 May 2022 In 2021, three singers — Smith, her countrywoman Nao and the Nigerian singer Tems — captured this sense of endemic, all-encompassing burnout. — New York Times, 14 Mar. 2022 Clinicians have felt overburdened and undersupported in recent years, even more so during the pandemic, and this has had a damaging impact on their mental health — leading to burnout, anxiety, and depression. — Jennifer Adaeze Okwerekwu, STAT, 10 Mar. 2022 Over the last year, millions of workers have quit their jobs because of burnout, bad hours and a desire for more flexibility. — Te-ping Chen, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2022 Surveys have shown soaring levels of burnout, anxiety, and dissatisfaction among workers. — Lila Maclellan, Quartz, 3 Mar. 2022 One of my areas of academic interest is physician burnout and mental health -- a problem that was widely regarded as a public health crisis before the pandemic even began. — Jillian Horton, CNN, 28 Jan. 2022 Timeline Recovery from anything—injury, illness, burnout, or another major life event—rarely fits neatly into a racing schedule. — Molly Hanson, Outside Online, 28 Jan. 2022 Kona bills itself as giving employees and managers a way to better communicate about moral, burnout, and mental health. — Kylie Logan, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2022 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb In the years since, the original game’s update schedule slowed to a crawl, and additions grew insubstantial, leading many players to burn out or move on. — Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2022 The overwork and staffing shortages of the pandemic have affected veterinarians as much as other doctors and nurses, and dealing with the constant moral dilemmas and emotional output was driving many to burn out even before 2020. — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2022 Now entering his 23rd year in the league, Brady is relishing every last ounce of what his mind and body will give him — a determined star not ready to burn out. — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 4 Apr. 2022 Businesses are still contending with this problem as burn out and employee turnover are increasing. — Daniel Newman, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2022 People burn out because their employers have not successfully managed chronic job stressors. — Christina Maslach, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2022 NFTs might burn out, the crypto-collectible equivalent of Beanie Babies. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2022 Some of this is hopefully passing: Surely the pandemic will burn out sooner or later, right? — Joel Mathis, The Week, 24 Jan. 2022 Parent burn out Here’s a staggering, if totally believable, statistic: about a quarter of working parents in the U.S. are suffering from signs of serious burnout, according to a report from Great Place to Work. — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 3 Dec. 2021 See More

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