overwork

Example Sentences

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Without knowing their opponent, the Hoosiers didn’t want to overwork older players.

From Los Angeles Times

"It's going to mean added stress and added work for staff who are already overworked particularly at this time of year."

From BBC

During the conversations with community members, people talked about their financial anxieties, stress due to overwork and the loneliness of adapting to a new culture in a new country.

From Los Angeles Times

However, not all patients benefit, and even those who do may see their response diminish as their T cells become overworked.

From Science Daily

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.

From The Wall Street Journal