as in to load
to fill or load to excess
try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems
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Recent Examples of overload
Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
For the past decade or so, it's been an overload of cop shows.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Continuously exerting mental and emotional effort without relief may also result in cognitive overload and diminish people’s ability to sustain mental resilience.
—Darlingtina Esiaka, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Trust Is The New Conversion Metric In the era of information overload, trust has become the most valuable currency in B2B. And trust isn’t built through clever outreach or catchy subject lines.
—Aaron Biggs, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Noun
When goals aren’t clearly defined, task switching due to overload and starting too soon only gets worse.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 11 May 2025
For the past decade or so, it's been an overload of cop shows.
—Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 9 May 2025
Continuously exerting mental and emotional effort without relief may also result in cognitive overload and diminish people’s ability to sustain mental resilience.
—Darlingtina Esiaka, The Conversation, 8 May 2025
Trust Is The New Conversion Metric In the era of information overload, trust has become the most valuable currency in B2B. And trust isn’t built through clever outreach or catchy subject lines.
—Aaron Biggs, Forbes.com, 28 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overload
Verb
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Anthony Volpe couldn't make the throw to third base, and the Dodgers suddenly had the bases loaded and nobody out.—
Noah Camras,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 May 2025
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With the bases now loaded and no one out, Cole started to rear back.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
30 May 2025
Noun
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Yes, in a perfect world, there would not be the salary ballast of Terry Rozier and Duncan Robinson, or, at this point, even Kevin Love.—
Ira Winderman,
Sun Sentinel,
21 May 2025
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In the face of global economic uncertainty, erratic equity markets and geopolitical tension, including the escalating tariff landscapes, that ballast matters.—
Spencer Elliott,
Forbes.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Asha Sharma, state policy manager for Leadership Counsel for Justice & Accountability, said her organization uses CEQA to reduce the polluting effects of projects in neighborhoods already overburdened by environmental problems.—
Liam Dillon,
Los Angeles Times,
2 June 2025
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After all the criticism, the skepticism, the downright sanctimony about the most controversial topic in New York sports — the exhausting, overburdening minutes — the Knicks lost a game, the narrative will go, because neither Hart nor Brunson played enough of crunch time.—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
30 Apr. 2025
Noun
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For other drivers, the TLC’s own taxi improvement fund — funded by a $1 surcharge on cab fares — provides $20,000 in grant money to drivers toward accessible-vehicle purchases.—
Evan Simko-Bednarski,
New York Daily News,
5 June 2025
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The state's counties each add their own 3% surcharge on top of the state’s tax, according to FOX 13.—
Ashley J. DiMella,
FOXNews.com,
29 May 2025
Verb
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No, Johnson wanted to talk about the, um, elephants (?) in the room, eventually making Fallon give her a tissue to stuff down the front of her outfit.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
5 June 2025
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Seaweed is toasted to order, and the restaurant’s signature hand roll comes stuffed with blue crab, shrimp, salmon belly and cucumber.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
4 June 2025
Noun
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The package, a centerpiece of the President’s domestic agenda, includes across-the-board tax cuts and sweeping reductions in federal spending.—
Nik Popli,
Time,
5 June 2025
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The package was intercepted and the fungus uncovered.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
5 June 2025
Noun
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In early September, customs authorities at the port of Marseille and at Charles de Gaulle Airport, outside Paris, refused to allow two separate shipments of El Mordjene to enter French territory.—
Lauren Collins,
New Yorker,
2 June 2025
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The company suspended rail shipments of autos from Mexico to the U.S.—
Steve Banker,
Forbes.com,
1 June 2025
Noun
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The award is bestowed on the two farms, one in Australia and one in New Zealand, that have successfully produced the finest bale of merino wool in the previous year.—
Martino Carrera,
Footwear News,
29 May 2025
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Twelve migrants were found hidden inside the hay bales.—
Brie Stimson,
FOXNews.com,
24 May 2025
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“Overload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overload. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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