overload
to load to excess; overburden: Don't overload the raft or it will sink.
an excessive load.
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How to use overload in a sentence
Some small colleges and large universities, however, were able to push through the semester without an overload of cases, and are now at a crossroads over what to do for the holidays.
Two very different colleges share how they kept COVID-19 off campus | Tara Santora | December 4, 2020 | Popular-ScienceThere has been a lot of discussion about how technology—for all its benefits including keeping us connected amid a time of social distancing—played its part in contributing to our confusion with cognitive overload and misinformation.
Exactly half of the subjects were classified as functionally overreaching, based on a significant decrease in their treadmill performance after the overload block.
How Your Muscle Fibers Might Predict Overtraining | Alex Hutchinson | October 17, 2020 | Outside OnlineAdvice overload plagues everyone and founders have it especially bad, given that most startups have a board of advisors.
Startup founders must overcome information overload | Walter Thompson | September 17, 2020 | TechCrunchIn a world of information overload, when any small question can easily give way to a flood of answers—some more reliable than others—the idea of quick, direct access to the correct one is particularly powerful.
“The painting is lush and triggers a sensory overload,” Harding said.
Hello, ‘Gorgeous’: Grit and Glamour In San Francisco | Emily Wilson | June 20, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTUsers were hacked by clicking questionable pins, which rapidly spread and resulted in a bootylicious overload.
'Porter' Snags Lady Gaga for Second Cover; Pinterest Gets a Bootylicious Makeover | The Fashion Beast Team | March 28, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThis is true of all technology: the more advanced it becomes, the more we are forced to multitask and adapt to choice overload.
Livestreams were “down nationwide due to a traffic overload/greater than expected,” the network told Variety in an email.
ABC Promised to Livestream the Oscars and Totally Failed | Amy Zimmerman | March 3, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIt also is home to the Heartattack Grill, an ode to caloric overload where ‘350 lbs and over eats free’.
A Tech Millionaire Bets on the Urban Revival of Downtown Las Vegas | Sarah Kunst | January 16, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn the meantime care should be taken not to overload the stomach.
An Epitome of Homeopathic Healing Art | B. L. HillMany of them had long since passed the red lines that marked the allowable overload point.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettMike the Angel knew that those points had been set low, but he also knew that they were approaching the real overload point.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettAnd this was all on top of the ordinary human suffering, which did not abate one jot for all its overload.
The Cup of Fury | Rupert HughesThe Cerebral, lacking a large alimentary system, is not tempted to overload his stomach or overtax his vital organs.
How to Analyze People on Sight | Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict
British Dictionary definitions for overload
(tr) to put too large a load on or in
an excessive load
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