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The heavy rains and floods also forced Formula One to cancel this weekend’s Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix to not overtax emergency crews that were already stretched thin in responding to the emergency.

From Seattle Times ● May 17, 2023

Just scheduled rest for the 21-year-old shortstop, whom Martinez doesn’t want to overtax despite his age.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 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

However, experts believe it will overtax America's health care system because it will infect so many people, some of whom will inevitably become seriously ill.

From Salon ● Dec. 21, 2021

The courts should carefully consider the facilities at the disposition of the communities in which they labor, and in imposing sentences they should be careful not to overtax them.

From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns

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

New York is not the only U. S. city that cruelly overtaxes its real estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

He speculated also that the short growing season does not allow enough time for the essentials of existence to be carried out, and the prolonged period of inactivity overtaxes the energy reserve of the species.

From Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) by Ray D. Burkett

And due to America’s aging, overtaxed electrical grid and our continuing dependence on fossil fuels, we likely won’t soon see the kind of five-minute charging now making its debut in China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 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

In fact, every Muslim worried that he overtaxed himself in the length of his speeches, considering his bronchial asthmatic condition.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

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