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Verb
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Applicants must meet one of 46 distinct eligibility criteria and fill out mountains of paperwork – a long and difficult process for a population already overburdened by bureaucracy.—
Pascale Leone,
New York Daily News,
16 Mar. 2025 -
After a mapping campaign in Toledo, Ohio, officials found that the city’s hot spots often overlapped with census tracts identified by the Biden administration’s Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool as lacking in commercial investment and overburdened by pollution.—
Ula Chrobak,
Smithsonian Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Ortega’s hair extensions were removed and her eye makeup was toned-down, which gave way to her effortlessly exhausted countenance.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
6 Aug. 2025
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The show can be exceedingly gory — there’s a scene of exacting, exhausted revenge that comes at the hands of a rare woman warrior — but I was taken with some of the more theatrical details around these moments of violence, including the exchange of insults that precede the final battle.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Many senior party and military leaders, weary after years of a punishing civil war, were reluctant to go up against the strongest force in the world.—
M. Taylor Fravel,
Foreign Affairs,
18 July 2025
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There’s no rest for the weary — or in this case, the Florida Panthers.—
Kaitlyn Pohly,
Miami Herald,
16 July 2025
Adjective
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When the mind gets fatigued, executive function just can't do its job.—
Ashton Jackson,
CNBC,
9 Aug. 2025
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An increase in the number of wildfires strains the system and the fatigued crews who work around-the-clock shifts, Florea added.—
Erik Ortiz,
NBC news,
20 July 2025
Adjective
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The tired belief that Republicans are better at handling the economy simply isn’t true.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
8 Aug. 2025
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If tired, float or tread water until out of the rip current.—
NC Weather Bot,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Aug. 2025
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“Overtaxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaxed. Accessed 19 Aug. 2025.
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