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
Liam Twomey, New York Times, 9 June 2025
After much debate about qualification rules and player overload due to an ever-expanding FIFA calendar, 32 of the best club teams in the world will vie for supremacy over the next month, with the final on July 13 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025
His ability to invert and create overloads in more central areas will be an obvious attraction to Pep Guardiola, who popularised the trend in the Premier League with Joao Cancelo.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Product teams have spent years refining their approaches to prioritization—turning feedback overload into focused roadmaps and aligning work with business goals.
—Daniel Decloss, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Noun
In possession, the goal is for Chelsea to arrange themselves with a three-man defence and a three-man attack with a midfield box between them, creating the possibility for overloads around opposing formations.
—Liam Twomey, New York Times, 9 June 2025
After much debate about qualification rules and player overload due to an ever-expanding FIFA calendar, 32 of the best club teams in the world will vie for supremacy over the next month, with the final on July 13 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
—Michelle Kaufman, Miami Herald, 8 June 2025
His ability to invert and create overloads in more central areas will be an obvious attraction to Pep Guardiola, who popularised the trend in the Premier League with Joao Cancelo.
—Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 June 2025
Product teams have spent years refining their approaches to prioritization—turning feedback overload into focused roadmaps and aligning work with business goals.
—Daniel Decloss, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overload
Verb
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That's why this bill is loaded up with priorities of GOP lawmakers and the Trump administration.—
Allison Pecorin,
ABC News,
23 June 2025
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Over the course of a year, the U.S. company imports thousands of pounds of these bearings, paying a tariff each time a batch of them is loaded off a container ship.—
Robert Goulder,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
Noun
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The bay, around the first bend from the lodge, is separated from the main lake by a railroad causeway built of ballast.—
Don Shiner,
Outdoor Life,
14 May 2025
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The long passages of banal detail in Murakami’s fiction are a sort of ballast, anchoring his precipitous swerves into the fantastic.—
Bailey Trela,
Vulture,
19 Nov. 2024
Verb
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There's More to That A Smithsonian magazine special report Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and museums, and sidewalk cafes overburdened with diners.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
15 May 2025
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This was a fitting feature for an episode about a young programmer designing a Choose Your Own Adventure game and for Black Mirror, a show that continues to explore the manipulative and frightening downsides to life overburdened with technology.—
Fran Hoepfner,
Vulture,
9 May 2025
Noun
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Each Outlines liner refill now costs $29, including the $1 surcharge, and the company’s sales perked back up again after the price change.—
Megan Sauer,
CNBC,
11 June 2025
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In April, SpaceX then increased the surcharge to $250 for select areas where Starlink was already at capacity.—
Michael Kan,
PC Magazine,
4 June 2025
Verb
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The quilt and sham are stuffed with artificial down to provide a cozy feel.—
Jacqueline Tempera,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 June 2025
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Lobster Tagliatelle At Wren & Wolf in downtown Phoenix, the Lobster Tagliatelle involves delicate ribbons of pasta that are bathed in a white wine and garlic sauce, crowned with half a Maine lobster, stuffed with a sumptuous blend of king crab and Spanish chorizo.—
Aly Walansky,
Forbes.com,
12 June 2025
Noun
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The crossover’s carbon-fiber aero package, which includes bulbous fenders and a giant rear wing, is capable of creating up to 6,900 pounds of downforce at 150 mph and upwards of 12,000 pounds at 200 mph, according to Inside EVs.—
Bryan Hood,
Robb Report,
17 June 2025
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That said, Katona has some obvious holes in his overall package.—
Brian Mazique,
Forbes.com,
17 June 2025
Noun
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Alexi Rodriguez, president of the Almond Alliance, told the gathering that China had been the top market for almonds until 2018, when an earlier round of Trump’s tariffs cut shipments.—
Dan Walters,
Mercury News,
25 June 2025
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Ahead of the de minimis suspension, both e-commerce giants increased prices, further signaling the challenges posed when adding duties to cheaper shipments directly from factories.—
Glenn Taylor,
Sourcing Journal,
25 June 2025
Noun
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And then there were the endless rows of hay bales that needed hauling.—
Matt Barrows,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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The main waste product of the Sims plant are bales of filmy, thin plastics, like dry cleaner bags.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
8 June 2025
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“Overload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overload. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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