overtax
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Data centers that blend into their communities and don’t overtax local resources actually exist, they just don’t make news.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
“We never try to overtax the player,” says Michael Borys, senior vice president of interaction design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
What I took most from last season is not wanting to overtax our starters.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 11, 2022
Because a labor dispute led to an abbreviated spring training, Showalter has been careful, trying not to overtax his bullpen early.
From New York Times ● Apr. 10, 2022
To climb Mount Blanc would overtax my heart: is it therefore inadvisable for me to climb the two flights to my laboratory?
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 4, August 1908 by Various
She never looks less than perfectly photoshopped, but the production ultimately overtaxes her strengths.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Venable distills his situation into a scene, which he then overtaxes into a full-scale play.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2025
Putting pencil to paper forces people to give spatial information—something that most liars have not prepared for as part of planning their lies and that, therefore, overtaxes their mental resources.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2011
Conversely, in catfish lakes, leaving too many fish and feeding them until they're big overtaxes the pond's oxygen.
From Time Magazine Archive
The case is the same with the gymnast who greatly overtaxes his muscle, having foolishly concluded that because he has had some training he can successfully meet the test.
From Power Through Repose by Annie Payson Call
“We continue to believe ENPH’s power management and controls capabilities uniquely meet the complex challenges of an overtaxed grid,” the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
But on a few days each year—particularly during heat waves, when people are using air conditioners—the grid gets overtaxed.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2025
Supporters of reducing reliance on imported sources say pumping less water would bring environmental benefits for overtaxed ecosystems.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
Finally, the resistance is not being waged only by the small, under-resourced, and overtaxed yet committed group of activists who have been sounding the alarm and fighting the fight in lonely trenches for years.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2025
It’s critical that we stay within the weight limit, or our oxen will be overtaxed.
From "Amina's Voice" by Hena Khan
Any reform plan from a committee would still require lawmakers to cast a difficult vote exposing them to charges of overtaxing working Americans or stiffing retirees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
On both occasions, the science demonstrates that humans are overtaxing our oceans' ability to offset climate change.
From Salon ● May 9, 2024
Soaring demand for cooling — fans, air conditioners, fridges and freezers — is overtaxing electrical grids long beset by war damage, mismanagement or corruption.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2023
But in the Philippines, government officials and parents remained hesitant, with fears that schoolchildren could bring the virus to homes crowded with multiple generations of family members, potentially overtaxing an already creaky health care system.
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2022
In the education journals of the day, there were constant worries about overtaxing students or blunting their natural abilities through too much schoolwork.
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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