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overtaxed

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verb

past tense of overtax
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Adjective
  • After Raymond wrapped, Heaton joined actor Kelsey Grammer on Fox's Back to You before finding a new home on the small screen as an overworked mom on ABC's The Middle, which also lasted nine seasons, from 2009 to 2018.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 16 May 2026
  • The track marks littering his arms suggest a life devoted to a destructive heroin habit, but Amin’s sister is determined to nurse him back to health, even though this only puts more of a burden on the overworked single mother.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2026
Verb
  • 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
  • Already, the department is overburdened, leaving the responsibility for handling many attacks by wolves and other predators to local law enforcement, said David Bess, a retired chief of CDFW’s enforcement division.
    Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
  • But crucially, people are very exhausted by the amount of noise online and by AI slop.
    Angela Yang, NBC news, 15 May 2026
  • For just one example of how this firehose of data is expected to transform our understanding of the cosmos, consider supernovas, the brilliant death throes of exhausted stars.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 15 May 2026
Verb
  • The boat does not appear to have been overloaded either.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 14 May 2026
  • This work kept the first moon landing from being aborted, even though the onboard computer was overloaded.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 12 May 2026
Adjective
  • Mexican officials stay unusually quiet about the mission, while weary Havana residents greet the ship with cautious hope that scarce aid will reach children, seniors and the most vulnerable.
    Ariel Fernandez, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
  • Sultry brass and piano spill all over the record, giving the whole affair a weary, second-side-of-Tattoo You vibe.
    Daniel Bromfield, Pitchfork, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • The accounts eventually become converted to conventional individual retirement accounts, or IRAs, and distributions will be taxed as ordinary income, though family contributions will be returned tax-free.
    Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 12 May 2026
  • Off the top of my head, and without looking it up, my recollection is that only the accelerated depreciation is taxed at 25%, and any depreciation that was claimed using a straight line method would be subject to the normal long-term capital gain rules and brackets, which could be 0%, 15%, or 20%.
    Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
Adjective
  • Images of the shelter slipped the Russian choke hold to appear on the world’s screens—intact and unbowed amid the rubble, like a temple time-transported from some more ancient siege, the faces of those within drained but resolute.
    James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • Increase heat to medium, add drained pasta; cook, stirring constantly, until a creamy sauce forms and clings to pasta, about 2 minutes.
    Elizabeth Mervosh, Southern Living, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • But most summit speakers treated circularity—a nebulous concept at the best of times—largely as an engineering challenge, one hampered by immature infrastructure, policy gaps and weak economics.
    Jasmin Malik Chua, Footwear News, 15 May 2026
  • The company is seeking to create a Duchenne gene therapy that is more effective and safer than Sarepta Therapeutics’ Elevidys, which has been hampered by safety concerns, particularly following the deaths of two recipients from liver failure.
    Jason Mast, STAT, 14 May 2026
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“Overtaxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaxed. Accessed 19 May. 2026.

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