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taxed

verb

past tense of tax

as in stretched

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience

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Recent Examples of taxed Revocable trusts avoid probate but are part of your estate and taxed accordingly. — Medora Lee, USA Today, 6 Sep. 2026 Both approaches can leave parents feeling even more taxed and out of control. — Juli Fraga, CNBC, 6 Sep. 2026 This setup also means they aren’t taxed like gambling, which generated nearly $18 billion in revenue for states last year. — Marshall Cohen, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026 The family did not know where to put the money, or how it should be taxed. — Laura Preston, New Yorker, 30 Aug. 2026 Quarreling over who should be taxed is one of California’s perpetual political games. — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026 Bizarrely, sweepstakes machines, unlike their VGT and casino slot cousins, are neither regulated nor taxed. — Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 25 Aug. 2026 If voters approve in November, this measure could hike the state’s homestead exemption over the period of a few years, to the point where residential properties are only taxed for schools. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026 The bullpen was taxed, so manager Matt Quatraro wanted to avoid using John Schreiber, Steven Cruz or Nate Pearson, among others. — Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026

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While the main festival was in Grant Park, entry locations for riders stretched all the way to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry on the South Side.

— Finnegan Belleau, Chicago Tribune, 6 Sep. 2026
But as hours stretched into days with no word from them, his hope turned to sorrow.

— Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2026

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In the years that followed, the family relationships viewers once watched on television became increasingly strained, with some of those disputes eventually playing out in public.

— Danielle Minnetian, FOXNews.com, 5 Sep. 2026
Still, the negotiations leading up to the CBA were strained at times.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of strained

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But for as out-of-character as Georgia Tech’s performance was against the Buffs, the Yellow Jackets at least have the experience of having been tested this season, while Tennessee does not.

— Justin Williams, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Their relationship is tested by family pressure, class differences and the economic and cultural realities separating their lives in France and India.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026

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Delays in testing and qualifying Blue Origin’s BE-4 engine and an explosion of the rocket’s Centaur upper stage during a ground test in 2023 eventually pushed Vulcan’s first test flight into early 2024.

— Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 11 Sep. 2026
That is why Connelly pushed so hard to convince Kuminga that taking roughly half as much money as other teams were offering was the right move.

— Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026

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