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Recent Examples of overtax
Sometimes simply snapping a photo of the item is a way to preserve the memory without overtaxing your storage space.
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
California is truly a national leader in overtaxing its businesses, residents and visitors.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
Creating efficiency by overtaxing other systems only throws the organization further out of balance.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Last year, the City Council reformed the property tax ordinance, which includes measures to determine accurate assessments and whether they are being overtaxed.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2025
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Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 27 Dec. 2025
California is truly a national leader in overtaxing its businesses, residents and visitors.
—The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 2 Dec. 2025
Creating efficiency by overtaxing other systems only throws the organization further out of balance.
—Aman Kidwai, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
Last year, the City Council reformed the property tax ordinance, which includes measures to determine accurate assessments and whether they are being overtaxed.
—Dana Afana, Freep.com, 21 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtax
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But overloading the dishwasher can result in dirty dishes that need to be put through a second cycle to get clean, and dishes that are crammed in may become damaged.—
Elizabeth Brownfield,
Southern Living,
23 Apr. 2026
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Because transmission and distribution lines have finite capacity, every route has a capacity limit, and a failure along one pathway can cause others to be overloaded.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
22 Apr. 2026
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But those customs brokers are overburdened now with such requests, and many have told their clients to create their own accounts and pursue the refunds themselves.—
Kate Nishimura,
Footwear News,
21 Apr. 2026
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There are moments when the book, in defending Giacometti, seems to overburden his oeuvre with an exponential set of aesthetic, intellectual, and political problems, from resolving the tensions between modernism and the avant-garde to a singular working through of national trauma.—
Ara H. Merjian,
ARTnews.com,
16 Apr. 2026
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Our tax code currently rewards companies for replacing workers — subsidizing AI investment while taxing the wages of the people being displaced.—
Morgan Chalfant,
semafor.com,
27 Apr. 2026
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The ordeal has been especially taxing on Zdroik and his family, including his two sisters and children.—
Julia Bonavita,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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Maintain a safe distance from large vehicles - Trucks or buses can produce a water spray that hampers visibility.—
KANSAS CITY STAR WEATHER BOT,
Kansas City Star,
27 Apr. 2026
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The intensity of the flames and the resulting smoke, compounded by the fact that the fire spread over the area mostly after dark, hampered the aerial firefighting strategy.—
Stefano Pozzebon,
CNN Money,
26 Apr. 2026
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“Overtax.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtax. Accessed 30 Apr. 2026.
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