overload
Example Sentences
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They emerge when effort gradually increases—when endurance, strength or skill expand over time in what is called progressive overload.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026
Somewhere along the way, we stopped asking whether the system was working and started asking how much we could overload it.
From Slate • May 3, 2026
The result is a raucous, interactive, sensory overload.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The outcome is both a thrilling sensory overload and unique love letter to her intense and adoring fans, who are often in tears.
From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026
In the locker room the coach was talking about how we had to overload one side of their zone and block off the defense when we swung it to that side.
From "Slam!" by Walter Dean Myers
Vocabulary lists containing overload
The House of Hades
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When I Was the Greatest
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Florida's B.E.S.T. Common Prefixes: over-
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