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  1. overexploitation, overuse, overutilization, overutilisationverb

    exploitation to the point of diminishing returns

    Synonyms:
    overutilization, overexploitation, overutilisation

  2. overuse, overdriveverb

    make use of too often or too extensively

    Synonyms:
    overdrive

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  1. David Axelrod:

    In terms of his value, it's been smart not to overuse him, they've been using him in targeted digital appeals to constituencies that Democrats need to arouse in this election : young people and people of color, who did not come out in the numbers that Hillary Clinton had hoped four years ago.

  2. Avinash Kar:

    There is no doubt that drug-resistant infections are on the rise. While CDC's estimates have improved, they remain conservative, solving antibiotic resistance will require ending the rampant overuse of these drugs in livestock. Until then, these lifesaving drugs will increasingly fail when sick people need them—and, as CDC recognized, 'everyone is at risk,'.

  3. Adam Aja:

    It is uncertain what constrained our cemetery, forcing such an overuse of each square meter of soil, it was never clear whether the cemetery was circumscribed so that all burials were forced into a particular plot or whether the burials were clustered around some feature in the landscape. In either case, if this measured density was extrapolated across just the excavated areas, the number of burials would top 1200 persons.

  4. Richard Waites:

    One of the things that I am seeing, not just in Baltimore but in other places, is an overuse of gag orders, the proper use of a gag order is to protect a party's rights of some kind. To protect information from going out to the public because it might cause problems -- I don't think that's a proper use of gag orders.

  5. Unknown:

    Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.


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