OVEREXERTED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

overexerted

verb

past tense of overexert

as in overworked

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The military has exerted pressure on those outside the country through their passports.

— Andrew Nachemson, The Dial, 22 Sep. 2026
In short, the system of high-budget television production exerted mighty pressures on Dunham and on the show, a little for better but mostly for worse.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026

Definition of exerted

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These were exercised during CFT, and along with our expert flight control team, the manual control capabilities on Starliner were critical to achieving a safe docking despite numerous thruster failures.

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2026
Participants who exercised correctly recognized 56% of the images, compared with 57% among those who napped and 46% in the control group.

— Katia Hetter, CNN Money, 26 Sep. 2026

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Less than a year after her son’s birth, Dowling tried to get pregnant again, opting for the same add-ons as before—with no luck.

— Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 30 Sep. 2026
Just as Kelly tried to push Marion out of the frame, her brother, James, at the time 9 months old, entered the office in his baby bouncer.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026

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Larger collaboration, now being essayed by film industries as established as France and the Nordic States, is the bigger major way Africa’s film industries can also go.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026

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