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his war stories were embellished with overdrawn descriptions of battle and efforts to save the wounded
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Listen to this article An East Haven man has been arrested after allegedly attempting to rob a bank by demanding to withdraw money from an overdrawn account while armed with a firearm, police said.
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Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
Marcum described how California’s great agricultural underbelly withered under cloudless skies, with vast stretches of farmland slowly sagging on top of overdrawn aquifers.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
An extended transcript of Scalia’s testimony to then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) during his confirmation hearings, largely recounted to make the current president look ill-informed, seemed especially overdrawn.
—Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
With the climate crisis in mind, architects are looking to more resilient options that don’t depend on the overdrawn electrical grid at all.
—Helen Bradshaw, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
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Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2024
Marcum described how California’s great agricultural underbelly withered under cloudless skies, with vast stretches of farmland slowly sagging on top of overdrawn aquifers.
—James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
An extended transcript of Scalia’s testimony to then-Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) during his confirmation hearings, largely recounted to make the current president look ill-informed, seemed especially overdrawn.
—Benjamin C. Waterhouse, Washington Post, 26 Apr. 2023
With the climate crisis in mind, architects are looking to more resilient options that don’t depend on the overdrawn electrical grid at all.
—Helen Bradshaw, Popular Science, 21 Feb. 2023
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“Overdrawn.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overdrawn. Accessed 27 Jul. 2024.
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