Example Sentences

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Rather, information technology experts discovered that electronic security measures put in place to protect elections systems from cyber attacks had overtaxed and slowed an older operating system.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 9, 2022

The Ohio Supreme Court ordered the village to refund $34,505,77 to Son Lincoln because Hudson had overtaxed the Ellsworth estate.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Roosevelt's last year at Harvard, a physician warned him that he had overtaxed his heart and must lead a more sedentary life.

From Time Magazine Archive

When he had waited a moment he began to fear that he had overtaxed her strength too far, and that she might have fainted.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

We were married, and I soon found that I had overtaxed my own resolve.

From A Life For a Love A Novel by Meade, L. T.