overwhelm
Example Sentences
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Yet now the union says nurses are overwhelmed by patients and is demanding that hospitals hire more.
An overwhelming majority of California voters approved the new district boundaries during the Nov. 4 special election when they passed Proposition 50.
From Los Angeles Times
It had enacted Senate Bill 21 with overwhelming bipartisan support in March.
From Barron's
In recent decades, plastic waste has overwhelmed waterways and oceans, sickening marine life and threatening human health.
From Los Angeles Times
Sterling said she felt "genuinely overwhelmed by this recognition".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
