OVEREXERTED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

overexerted

verb

past tense of overexert

as in overworked

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Serially deadpan comedian-filmmaker Fielder, meanwhile, has previously exerted pop-cultural thrall as the figurehead of HBO’s The Rehearsal and Comedy Central’s Nathan for You.

— Chris Lee, Vulture, 26 Oct. 2026
While a filter holds the foam back, the gas passes through another channel into the eyedrop chamber, where the pressure exerted by it pushes the medication down a final microfluidic channel that leads directly into the corner of the patient's eye.

— Ben Coxworth October 23, New Atlas, 23 Oct. 2026

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The figures for voluntary bumps are larger — 18,756 for Delta, 6,274 for United and 8,567 for American — but, in these cases, passengers exercised their free will.

— Andrea Sachs, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2026
The poll, conducted by Savanta for AI meeting assistant company Bluedot, also found that 23% have used the restroom during a meeting with their cameras off, 14% have shopped online and 13% have exercised.

— Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026

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Pinch-runner Cedric Mullins replaced Caminero before DeLuca, who had made sparkling catches to deny Yelich in the third and William Contreras in the fourth, hit a grounder past the mound as Drohan tried in vain to make a behind-the-back snag.

— Ronald Blum, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Publishing houses have tried to crack down on AI usage by authors, inserting strict clauses into book deals and leaning on Pangram to vet manuscripts.

— The Week US, TheWeek, 27 Oct. 2026

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Larger collaboration, now being essayed by film industries as established as France and the Nordic States, is the bigger major way Africa’s film industries can also go.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
After netting a Golden Globe nomination for her film debut in 1978's Corvette Summer, Annie Potts joined the cast of Ghostbusters, played the ultimate Cool Girl record store clerk in Pretty in Pink (1986), and essayed her most iconic role as barbed single-mother Mary Jo Shively on Designing Women.

— Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 8 June 2026

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