as in loads
to fill or load to excess
try not to overload your backpack, or you could end up with back problems
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Verb
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And don't forget the mini space rover that loads into the cargo pod.—
John Mihaly,
PC Magazine,
5 Sep. 2025 -
Garfield loads Hank with chummy physicality.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 Aug. 2025
Noun
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That game, however, is unavailable for buyers of season-ticket packages according to emails and screenshots provided to SportsMoney by multiple season ticket holders.—
Andrew Wagner,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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My mother regularly intercepted the packages, returned the items, and used the money to buy food for our family.—
Rachel Kushner,
New Yorker,
14 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Smith replied that private schools must submit renewal packets every year before they are approved to continue participation in the accounts program, and that the agency compares the new tuition rates against the older rates.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
12 Sep. 2025
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Sammy, with his pony tail and wedge cut, was behind the pill window handing out pill packets.—
Manuel Muñoz,
Literary Hub,
11 Sep. 2025
Noun
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In the early two-thousands, his team had taken a first shot at the ten-foot-high bundles of wheat that adorn some of the windows.—
D. T. Max,
New Yorker,
15 Sep. 2025
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To build this fall door wreath, wire bundles of ornamental grass and purple fountain grass seed heads to a wreath form, keeping the shape loose and imperfect.—
Maria Sabella,
Better Homes & Gardens,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Up first is considering industry appetite for regenerative cotton bales from the Trust Protocol’s 40-plus member brands.—
Alexandra Harrell,
Sourcing Journal,
8 Sep. 2025
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The pair appeared to be in a rural area surrounded by grass and hay bales.—
Kimberlee Speakman,
PEOPLE,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Overloads.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overloads. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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