Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Undergoing or suffering the effects of extreme stress.
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- adjective Suffering from a high level of
stress
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Examples
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While it's true that evangelicals are a minority, they're a sizable one — 40% of the U.S. population, according to Gallup Polls — and not exactly a stressed-out minority, especially in the South.
Study suggests 'born-again' believers have smaller brains 2011
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While it's true that evangelicals are a minority, they're a sizable one — 40% of the U.S. population, according to Gallup Polls — and not exactly a stressed-out minority, especially in the South.
Study suggests 'born-again' believers have smaller brains 2011
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I took that same mentality to my jobs over the years, too, and it got me stressed-out with 70 work weeks.
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The Good: It's a promising premise: a stressed-out, not particularly close family is imbued with super powers.
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The irony of a stressed-out working mother writing a novel about a stressed-out working mother was hard to bear at times.
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While you won't find CM defined on Wikipedia or easily searched on Google, you will find it lurking in the minds and bodies of stressed-out, over-extended, over-committed employees of corporations, everywhere.
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American policy makers and educators are at a dangerous crossroads: we can marginalize union villains and squeeze performance gains from stressed-out professionals living in a time warped learning paradigm.
Michael Levine: Stop Waiting: A New Day for Learning Michael Levine 2010
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When divorce does happen, it only adds to the stress faced by an already stressed-out population.
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Would you allow your stressed-out child to spend a day at home doing absolutely nothing so he/she can decompress?
Obama girls miss two days of school; when is it okay to keep a kid out of school? Valerie Strauss 2011
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Andy Clark (Emilio Estevez): The stressed-out jock used to wish that his knee would give out, and it finally did -- not on the wrestling mat, but during a particularly intense punch-dancing session.
'The Breakfast Club' at 25: Where are Claire, Andy, Brian, John and Allison? Susannah Gora 2010
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