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overuse
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Princeton's WordNet
overexploitation, overuse, overutilization, overutilisationverb
exploitation to the point of diminishing returns
Synonyms:
overutilization, overexploitation, overutilisationoveruse, overdriveverb
make use of too often or too extensively
Synonyms:
overdrive
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "overuse":
overexploitation, over-use, overwork, over-consumption, over-exploitation, overconsumption, over-harvesting
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#19574 | overdrive | |
#42221 | overuse | |
#95364 | overwork | |
#179171 | overexploitation | |
#228976 | overconsumption |
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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.
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,'.
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.
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,'.
It's not necessarily plastic that's the problem... It's our overuse of, for example, single-use plastics that might be used for only 10 to 15 seconds before we then have to throw that away.
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