overwork

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Recent Examples of overwork Elsewhere, several elaborate comic setpieces feel strained and overworked, throwing ever more secondary figures and complications on screen to make up for a lack of underlying urgency and momentum. Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 May 2025 Hadi relegates some striking political symbolism — mainly, fascinating omnipresent Saddam portraiture and slogans, enough to overwork and discourage Iraq’s future Shepard Faireys — at the level of world building. Ritesh Mehta, IndieWire, 16 May 2025 Advertisement Advertisement People who were overworked showed changes in 17 brain regions compared to those who worked typical hours. Alice Park, Time, 16 May 2025 And the luck of it all … the fall revealed a hidden ailment with which he was born — a blockage in his left kidney, which could overwork his right kidney and lead to a rupture. Jason Quick, New York Times, 15 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overwork
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overwork
Verb
  • The always good Farahani has a lot of screaming and shouting to do, pulling it off convincingly but then overdoing it in too many scenes of the same thing.
    Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
  • One of the best ways to accomplish this (without overdoing it) is to think about driving your knees forward and up.
    Jennifer Heimlich, SELF, 25 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • In a social media post Wednesday morning on X, Vance echoed his boss’ urging that the central bank ease monetary policy, after the latest inflation readings showed that tariffs are yet to exert any substantial upward pressure on inflation.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 11 June 2025
  • LLMs and foundation models require GPU clusters that exert pressures very different from conventional data center workloads.
    Piyush Jain, Forbes.com, 11 June 2025
Verb
  • Let your child know that overusing harsh ingredients or layering multiple products can damage their skin—yes, even if it's being promoted by social media influencers.
    ​Wendy Wisner, Parents, 10 June 2025
  • These storms are why Coloradans overuse the cliche Don’t like the weather?
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 6 June 2025
Verb
  • Throughout late life, Marianne Moore exercised her imagination on a wide range of real activities, institutions, sites, and people—including baseball fans.
    Susan Gubar June 9, Literary Hub, 9 June 2025
  • Republicans have begun to investigate whether aides exercised presidential power in Biden’s name without his express permission or full awareness.
    Sarah Bedford, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Verb
  • But Oban’s latest release falls outside both those ranges, giving the distillery’s fans an additional chance to try something new.
    David Thomas Tao, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025
  • The street where the missile landed was filled with bulldozers trying to clear the debris.
    Zeena Saifi, CNN Money, 16 June 2025
Verb
  • Rao essays the role of the unemployed boy who takes some wrong turns to ensure a government job and get married.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
  • Kapoor essays the role of a cop who has been trying to catch the thief for a long time.
    Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

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“Overwork.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overwork. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.

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