OVEREXERTED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

overexerted

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past tense of overexert

as in overworked

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Rezaei’s remarks are another indication of the control exerted by Tehran’s hardliners and their growing readiness to adopt a more offensive posture.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa, the big three of the three hundred–plus ethnicities that made up the national character, exerted their outsized influence in the shattering wave of military coups that preceded and followed the brutal civil war.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2026

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Shipping data suggests that more crude oil is leaving the Gulf via a southern route close to the coast with Oman, a threat to the leverage Iran has exercised in recent months.

— Tim Lister, CNN Money, 23 Aug. 2026
The crux of the dispute surrounds the validity of a contract extension option for Mateta, one which Palace exercised in December 2024.

— Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026

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Moczarski, who had once tried to assassinate Stroop, discovered that his cellmate was entirely unrepentant, and willing to discuss his crimes freely.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 27 Aug. 2026
Because of a lack of variety in Halal restaurants, neither of the men had tried barbecue besides brisket before their trip.

— Maven Navarro, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Aug. 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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