overuse
Example Sentences
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Overspecializing at a young age also increases the risks of burnout and overuse injuries, and is less sustainable in the long run, according to the researchers.
Forcing senators to stand and deliver would make it more difficult to filibuster, ending its promiscuous overuse, Merkley suggested, and — ideally— engaging the public in a way privately messaging fellow senators — I dissent! — does not.
From Los Angeles Times
Danish officials did not design their schedule to signal that vaccines are overused.
From MarketWatch
While only one piece of a much larger urban transformation, this uproarious structure, perched at the edge of the Basque city’s industrial waterfront, utterly transformed its image, giving birth to the overused phrase “Bilbao Effect.”
From Los Angeles Times
Wittgenstein’s aphorisms sparkle, but he recognized he overused them, admitting that “raisins may be the best part of a cake; but a bag of raisins is not better than a cake.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
