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- verb Present participle of
overuse .
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Examples
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LL's claims we were 'overusing' openspaces and 'burdening' the network are also false, mainland sims put far far more burden on their servers and the network than private sims do, yet they are not changing tiers on mainland sims at all.
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LL's claims we were 'overusing' openspaces and 'burdening' the network are also false, mainland sims put far far more burden on their servers and the network than private sims do, yet they are not changing tiers on mainland sims at all.
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Unless I am totally mistaken and people "overusing" the bandwith won't even have an effect on me.
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For your evidence, look at emergency rooms - half of what is there is folks overusing it, but half of the other half is people showing up to treat stuff they could have handled much more easily, if they had gone in earlier.
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Yes, steroids are bad for you, but so is overusing cortisone so that you can continue to play football or some other rigorous physical sport through an injury that would render you unable to stand the pain without significant chemical assistance.
Matthew Yglesias » Baseball Fans, Perennially Losing Their Innocence
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H - Habitat loss: Sadly, humans are taking care of this for the vampires, cutting down trees and rainforests, depleting theozone, overusing gas, oil, and water, etc
TWILIGHT VAMPIRES TO CAUSE HUMAN EXTINCTION | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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The slippery slope one has to be careful of is overusing the phrase I'm sorry.
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Clinton incapacitated America by weakening the counter-terror organizations, overusing diplomacy, and simply ignoring the problem of international terrorism. copied and pasted obviously.
Feinstein’s O.K. With Panetta at C.I.A. - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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WASHINGTON—Hog farmers are overusing antibiotics on their herds and that may be creating antibiotic-resistant bacteria that pose a threat to human health, Edward Knipling, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's research branch, said Wednesday.
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Some writers make the mistake of overusing dialogue where it has no real purpose.
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