Example Sentences

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A warmer world also causes more surface water to evaporate, leaving less to seep through the ground to replenish overstressed aquifers.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 29, 2023

She believes she can put these new technologies to good use and minimise risks for overstressed and pressurised K-pop artists trying to keep up with the demands of the industry.

From BBC • Dec. 11, 2022

“Papers, Please,” first released in 2013, turned simple puzzles into a game of geopolitical chess, asking players to imagine life as an underpaid, overstressed immigration officer in an Eastern Bloc country.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2022

The movie’s air of blithe testiness was so pervasive that you could recast this with Dreyfuss in the lead and Heard lashing out as one of the overstressed parents and lose nothing.

From New York Times • Oct. 2, 2020

For now, the tension was subtle, a vibration, like the inaudible cry of overstressed steel.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson