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Despite uncertainty over the exact figure, experts agree that overdrawing oil from the salt caverns it is stored in would damage the caverns.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026

No one suggests that the banks shouldn’t charge fees for specific services, such as for maintaining customers’ checking or banking accounts or overdrawing their accounts or stopping payment on checks.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

Legislation passed in 2014 requires water districts to stop overdrawing their aquifers by the 2040s.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2023

Smith notes that you can often select the day for the withdrawal to ensure it falls before the due date but after your paycheck is deposited to prevent overdrawing your account.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 4, 2022

With a lighter and less matter-of-fact treatment one would accept more easily the overdrawing of her rather impossible felines.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 19, 1919 by Various