overloaded

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• In 2017, the Charleston Gazette-Mail won a Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting for revealing how the pharmaceutical industry was, in essence, poisoning West Virginia communities by shipping them an astonishing overload of opioid pills.

• Birds and fish form groups that move chaotically in the presence of a predator, giving it “cognitive overload,” says Randy Olson, who builds computer models of predator and prey behavior at Michigan State University.

• I've chalked it up to the self-absorption that creeps into people as they age, coupled with modern content overload that has mutilated our attention spans.

• It was developed before our modern understanding of stress overload.

• Our technique is to switch off stress overload by using a controlled burst of anger to help the brain exert better emotional control and allow emotions to flow rather than become chronic and toxic.

• They provided email addresses, phone numbers, and Twitter handles to get in touch, with cell service overloaded.

• They unplugged their cellphones from overloaded outlets so a girl with cerebral palsy could recharge her wheelchair.

• The books were “diffuse, overloaded with minute and often irrelevant observation.”

• Some sentences are so overloaded with adjectives and ten-cent words that they lose all meaning.

• Another problem: Those additions are also overloaded with sodium.

• This is the fifth day in succession that I have come home late with an overloaded stomach.

• These ladies were so with gold, pearls, and diamonds, that they really resembled beasts of burden.