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overwork

verb as in overdo

verb as in work too hard

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The novel relates the partly autobiographical story of Charley Klein, who is raised in community housing in the Bronx, N.Y., in the 1930s by an overworked mother and a resentful, invalid father.

Air-traffic controllers have been overworked as a long-running shortage, which started before the pandemic and was exacerbated by it, has defied several efforts to recruit more people into the job.

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The FAA said the cuts were necessary to maintain safety as air traffic controllers have been overworked during the shutdown.

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Beverly Gillette decided to cancel her Saturday morning flight to Brooklyn, N.Y., on Thursday night after reading multiple reports of overworked air traffic controllers, unpaid TSA workers and staffing shortages.

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Amid the wounded, the amputees, the disfigured and suicidal, overworked medics, orderlies, doctors and nurses do their best to save lives and what is left of bodies and minds.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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