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overload

verb as in weigh down

verb as in encumber

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Some small colleges and large universities, however, were able to push through the semester without an overload of cases, and are now at a crossroads over what to do for the holidays.

There has been a lot of discussion about how technology—for all its benefits including keeping us connected amid a time of social distancing—played its part in contributing to our confusion with cognitive overload and misinformation.

From Fortune

Exactly half of the subjects were classified as functionally overreaching, based on a significant decrease in their treadmill performance after the overload block.

Advice overload plagues everyone and founders have it especially bad, given that most startups have a board of advisors.

In a world of information overload, when any small question can easily give way to a flood of answers—some more reliable than others—the idea of quick, direct access to the correct one is particularly powerful.

From Quartz

“The painting is lush and triggers a sensory overload,” Harding said.

Users were hacked by clicking questionable pins, which rapidly spread and resulted in a bootylicious overload.

This is true of all technology: the more advanced it becomes, the more we are forced to multitask and adapt to choice overload.

Livestreams were “down nationwide due to a traffic overload/greater than expected,” the network told Variety in an email.

It also is home to the Heartattack Grill, an ode to caloric overload where ‘350 lbs and over eats free’.

In the meantime care should be taken not to overload the stomach.

Many of them had long since passed the red lines that marked the allowable overload point.

Mike the Angel knew that those points had been set low, but he also knew that they were approaching the real overload point.

And this was all on top of the ordinary human suffering, which did not abate one jot for all its overload.

The Cerebral, lacking a large alimentary system, is not tempted to overload his stomach or overtax his vital organs.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overload, such as: overburden, overwhelm, burden, encumber, oppress, and pile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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