as in exhausts
to use so much as to make less appealing
she had overused that joke to the point where it was eliciting groans and not guffaws
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exhausts
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The idea of festivals just exhausts me.—
Meg Zukin,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Apr. 2025 -
If Le Pen exhausts the appeals process and truly cannot run for the presidency in 2027, the party already has an obvious candidate-in-waiting in Jordan Bardella.—
Cole Stangler,
Time,
1 Apr. 2025
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“Overuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overuses. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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