overdraw
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Workers cannot take out their full balance for a hardship withdrawal and they cannot overdraw, so there are some guardrails.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 12, 2026
Because banks often issue multiple charges a day, it’s not uncommon to overdraw your account by $20 and end up paying $200 for it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
McCarthy attacked Boxer’s ethics and personal finances in connection with the House banking scandal, in which members of Congress were allowed to overdraw their accounts without penalty.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Even if a buy now, pay later provider doesn’t penalize you for falling behind, your bank might if you overdraw an account tied to the loan, like a debit card.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2022
“People overdraw their accounts all the time,” she said.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
But if this system fails or overdraws these gases, these wells can introduce oxygen into the waste, speeding up waste decomposition and producing heat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025
As Wang explained, shifting in his seat and gesturing with his hands throughout, Alameda earned an “allow_negative” badge because it helped the firm sidestep the automatic procedures Wang implemented to prevent account overdraws and wipeouts.
From Slate ● Oct. 6, 2023
“We’re in a period of 23 years of sustained drought and overdraws on the system,” he said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
He even overdraws his bank account to stretch the money further.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 20, 2018
In such emergencies one overdraws his account; he travels on the credit of the strength he expects to gain when he gets his dinner and some sleep.
From In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs by John Burroughs
When I was in college, I never overdrew my bank account.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025
For some reason, the bank debited my account twice for the same payment, which meant it overdrew my account and I got slapped with an overdraft fee.
From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2020
At 11, Singh overdrew his approach and went into the pond.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 22, 2020
In California, a worker was automatically fired after she overdrew her quota of unpaid time off by a single hour following a death in her family.
From The Verge ● Feb. 27, 2020
This young lawyer overdrew his account at Nature's bank, and she foreclosed by a stroke of paralysis.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
After all the other expenses, “you’re left with a couple hundred dollars to play with. Sometimes that would cause me to be overdrawn if I wasn’t expecting a specific bill.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
Critics say the links between Karachi’s gangsters and Islamist terrorists are overdrawn, that the real Karachi is far less glamorous than its Bollywood incarnation, and that one character’s Punjabi accent isn’t quite right.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025
A supermarket incorrectly charged a woman £533 for two peppers, leaving her overdrawn and incurring bank charges.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2024
There was no whimsy to this lifestyle, just overdrawn accounts and the creeping realization that I might live this way forever.
From Slate ● May 18, 2024
The quantum laws are more liberal and allow you to be overdrawn on one or two accounts provided the total balance is positive.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
Despite uncertainty over the exact figure, experts agree that overdrawing oil from the salt caverns it is stored in would damage the caverns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
“We urge any customer who may find themselves in financial difficulty due to overdrawing on their account to contact us.”
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023
In 2021, the average fee for overdrawing your account was $33.58.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
He said the widespread depletion of groundwater is another symptom of overdrawing the region’s critical water reserves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
One of them was to the Princeton Bank, and it contained the check for $200, and an apology for overdrawing his account the month previous, which was "not likely to happen again," he said.
From The Adventures of a Freshman by Jesse Lynch Williams
