Example Sentences
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“We’re not playing great all the time, we’re a little overmanned at times.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 18, 2022
As soon as I saw Google, I lost the will to read because I was so overmanned.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2016
The late Alan Walters, her chief economic adviser, believed a key source of inflation and the weak economy was the amount of taxpayers' money being poured into overmanned, old-fashioned, government-owned industry.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 22, 2014
Poor countries also benefit from moving workers out of overmanned farms and into factories, where they are many times more productive.
From Economist ● Feb. 14, 2013
The boat was overmanned, and old Jacobs, the coxswain, had to order several of them to go ashore again.
From Saved by the Lifeboat by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
