overstress

Example Sentences

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“The timing of that kind of stuff prior to deployment is really, really problematic and just overstresses an already stressed system.”

From Science Magazine

As of earlier this week, less than one-quarter of the hospital’s 115 patients had Covid, but it was enough to overstress an already taxed facility.

From New York Times

“It’s been a reduction in the ability of people to seek protection and an overstressed Border Patrol, which doesn’t have the capacity to deal with that level of activity.”

From Seattle Times

This is drastically different from real life, with its plain, wide-eyed teenagers who are in a constant stage of overstressing and messing up.

From Seattle Times

The delay can have both obvious risks of ongoing pain and increasing disability, as well as unexpected consequences like injury to previously healthy muscles and joints that are overstressed as a result.

From New York Times