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
April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
As always, there’s a fine line between innovation and buzzword overload.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
But the overload caused by the department’s critical understaffing will begin to take a toll threatening to set loose all of Jackson’s old demons.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 31 July 2025
At a recent press event on the Disney lot in Burbank, however, Kevin Feige, Marvel’s chief creative officer and president of Marvel Studios, reassured reporters that studio brass understands the vote of no confidence implicit in declining ticket sales and complaints of MCU overload.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 28 July 2025
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Verb
In this age of information overload, there’s simply too much to process, and none of us have the roadmap.
—April Uchitel, Flow Space, 6 Aug. 2025
As always, there’s a fine line between innovation and buzzword overload.
—Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
But the overload caused by the department’s critical understaffing will begin to take a toll threatening to set loose all of Jackson’s old demons.
—Joe Otterson, Variety, 31 July 2025
At a recent press event on the Disney lot in Burbank, however, Kevin Feige, Marvel’s chief creative officer and president of Marvel Studios, reassured reporters that studio brass understands the vote of no confidence implicit in declining ticket sales and complaints of MCU overload.
—Chris Lee, Vulture, 28 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overload
Verb
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The result, a strikeout with the bases loaded, was the continuation of a $17 million gamble that has gone bust.—
Fabian Ardaya,
New York Times,
22 Aug. 2025
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The metrics changes also erect some dissuasion to loading up a schedule with cupcake opponents.—
Blake Toppmeyer,
USA TODAY,
21 Aug. 2025
Noun
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To manage traction and optimize performance, the locomotive design includes the option to add ballast—either by embedding concrete in the floor or installing steel plates—to increase weight and improve wheel-rail contact.—
David Blekhman,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Dividend-paying stocks may offer ballast in times of market volatility, even when equities are climbing higher.—
Michelle Fox,
CNBC,
8 July 2025
Verb
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To conservatives, the shift is a necessary course correction away from violence in the streets and crippling mandates that overburden police departments.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
26 May 2025
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This law has overburdened D.A. offices by requiring prosecutors disclose evidence to be used at trial within 20 days of an arraignment.—
Ryan Silverstein,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Nixon’s 1971 import surcharges were replete with carve-outs for politically useful industries and foreign states.—
Andrew Leahey,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
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New York’s LaGuardia charges $5 roundtrip, though the city adds other surcharges.—
Kelly Puente,
The Tennessean,
13 Aug. 2025
Verb
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Thierry notified me of his satisfaction with another grunt and reached into the pillowy recesses of his fleece to produce a tatty padded envelope stuffed with Euros.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Aug. 2025
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Hasty got stuffed twice at the line, while the rest of the backs were stonewalled once apiece.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
13 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The overall number of games that fans will be able to watch outside of their local markets will be up in 2025-26 under the first year of the NBA’s new media rights package.—
Lev Akabas,
Sportico.com,
16 Aug. 2025
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Phishing texts claiming that tolls haven’t been paid or packages can’t be delivered, calls from solicitors promising to erase debt, malware emails offering winnings from a sweepstakes that no one ever entered.—
Mary Walrath-Holdridge,
USA Today,
16 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The Trump administration said in April, before the executive order ending the exemptions, that Customs and Border Patrol processes over 4 million de minimis shipments into the U.S. each day.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
26 Aug. 2025
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Somewhere in a control room, a supply chain director is rerouting shipments, a project manager is revising risk models, and an AI engine is running thousands of tariff scenarios an hour.—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Carroll County Department of Fire and Emergency Medical Services continued to work on the scene with the farm owners to break apart the remains of the building and debris from the fire, such as small fires stuck in bales of hay.—
Chevall Pryce,
Baltimore Sun,
19 Aug. 2025
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Bangladesh is projected to import 8.1 million bales of cotton in marketing year 2026, or 300,000 bales fewer than the previous year, due to lower global consumption forecasts, the U.S. Department of Agriculture wrote in a note earlier this month.—
Jasmin Malik Chua,
Sourcing Journal,
18 Aug. 2025
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“Overload.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overload. Accessed 29 Aug. 2025.
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