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all in, aweary [archaic], beat, beaten, bleary, burned-out (or burnt-out), bushed, dead, done, drained, exhausted, fatigued, jaded, knackered [British], limp, logy (also loggy), played out, pooped [slang], prostrate, spent, tapped out, tuckered (out), washed-out, wearied, weary, wiped out, worn, worn-out
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Golden State is tired, hobbled and clearly not playing with the same hunger the Raptors are. — Nick Talbot, ExpressNews.com, "Writer’s roundtable: What has been the biggest factor in the Raptor's success?," 9 June 2019 Along the way, your core weapon set will likely start to feel tired. — Daniel Starkey, Ars Technica, "Starlink: Battle for Atlas review: Cool toys, solid spacefaring," 16 Oct. 2018 Ellison, sources say, has also grown tired of Congress, feeling that the legislative body gets little done. — Dan Merica, CNN, "Rep. Keith Ellison considering leaving Congress to run for Minnesota Attorney General," 5 June 2018 The series’s Swedish director Johan Renck (who made 2015’s stylish European gangster series The Last Panthers) has done something stunning: Chernobyl creates a sense of relentless, excruciating terror with none of the tired genre cliches of horror. — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, "HBO’s New Miniseries Chernobyl Will Give You Nightmares," 4 May 2019 In the second camp are folks who have also been obsessing over the storyline of the series but have not yet tired of trying to predict the next big plot twist. — Ineye Komonibo, Marie Claire, "Will Tyrion Lannister Be Killed by Bronn With a Crossbow on 'Game of Thrones'?," 3 May 2019 There's most certainly a way to critique outfit choices that doesn't employ tired, ageist ideas about what how a woman is supposed to dress. — Abby Gardner, Glamour, "A Fashion Editor Said Supermodel Helena Christensen Was Too Old to Wear a Bustier—and People Aren’t Having It," 30 Apr. 2019 So tired old jokes will find a home with dull people, which may help explain the nettlesome persistence of Adam Sandler. — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, "Would Your Clone Have the Same Sense of Humor?," 9 Apr. 2019 For chilly women, there are certainly options beyond the tired pashmina. — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, "A Stress-Free Guide to Dressing for Any Wedding," 21 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'tired.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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