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overtaxed

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verb

past tense of overtax

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtaxed
Adjective
  • In conversation with Fortune, Zhao said there is ample evidence of workers feeling anxious, overworked, and burned out.
    Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There were more calls for service than overworked case managers could handle.
    Joanna Allhands, AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Numerous studies indicate that physicians have increasingly become overburdened with non-clinical tasks that routinely pull them away from direct patient care; in fact, many hospital systems are facing record attrition due to these factors.
    Forbes.com, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • Rural fire districts are overburdened, underfunded State regulations appear to place the highest burden on the agencies with the lowest budgets.
    Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The director noticed that the exhausted Sheen couldn't keep his eyes open even when cameras were rolling.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
  • The result is not just one exhausted employee, but a system that steadily depletes its people.
    Sandro da Silva, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When they are overloaded or useless, employees stop reading.
    Dr. Diane Hamilton, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • That story line’s villains and betrayals are predictable in a way Mare never was, with characters who are either paper thin or overloaded with quirks.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • While Schneider was expressing his feelings about the unknown state of Judge’s normally rocket arm, the Yankees seemed weary about answering these kind of inquiries.
    Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
  • Where Shy was the subject of Porter’s slender book — which is really more of a beat-poetry day-in-the-life monologue — the focus shifts here to the weary headmaster who’s been fighting on the students’ behalf all these years.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 6 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The bullpen was taxed and the Royals were down a run in the middle frames.
    Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Traditional retirement plans—like a 401(k), 403(b), 457(b), SEP-IRA, or traditional IRA—offer tax breaks now, though withdrawals are taxed later.
    Kara Stevens, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The investigation has been hampered by peculiar challenges, though, perhaps none greater than the fact that the entire city in which the crime occurred has vanished.
    Denver Nicks, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Dry conditions have hampered quail reproduction across parts of Arizona, leading to concerns about future populations.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 9 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Originally from Ohio, Howard would whisper-speak his lectures to a crowded room, describing with fatigued superiority people (including his family) who couldn’t properly appreciate Nijinsky.
    Rivka Galchen, New Yorker, 6 Sep. 2025
  • The complex-task-first group was significantly less fatigued at the end of the workday.
    Lieke ten Brummelhuis, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Overtaxed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaxed. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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