overloaded

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Zoe said in that moment all she could focus on was the revelation of the affair - her body had been overloaded with five shocks in about 40 seconds.

From BBC • May 30, 2026

If LRP1 binds amyloid-β too strongly, the transport machinery becomes overloaded and breaks down.

From Science Daily • May 17, 2026

The Navy has four shipyards that service its nuclear fleet, and the two that service aircraft carriers are overloaded.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

He has kidney stones and is often in excruciating pain, but has been waiting more than a year for surgery because hospitals are overloaded and lack basic medicines.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

The frontal lobe, the executive functions, get so overloaded, so taxed, that there are fewer resources left to make a good decision.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel