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- noun Plural form of
overload . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overload .
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Examples
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Systems with some headroom can absorb short-term overloads and keep working.
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Time variants decrease exponentially based on a mathematical factor, until a critical mass is reached when the time slips occur so close that they are essentially happening all at the same time, and the brain overloads.
The Tail Section » Episode 4.5 “The Constant” Afterthoughts 2008
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More of the personnel in the control center join the head-scratching as they monitor the automatic rerouting of call overloads.
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
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More of the personnel in the control center join the head-scratching as they monitor the automatic rerouting of call overloads.
Orbit John J. Nance 2006
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When some magical number of Mexican immigrants "overloads" a formerly mostly white area, some sort of hackles go up and some people feel threatened and start to react.
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The search figures for October to November 2009 actually show that the 'overloads' continued to use Google, while Bing usage actually dropped.
Lockergnome 2009
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He is trying to put the net under some new form of international governance among those he anoints as the good guys, our benevolent new overloads.
Jeff Jarvis: A Struggle Over the Sovereignty of the Net and Nations Jeff Jarvis 2011
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He is trying to put the net under some new form of international governance among those he anoints as the good guys, our benevolent new overloads.
Jeff Jarvis: A Struggle Over the Sovereignty of the Net and Nations Jeff Jarvis 2011
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He is trying to put the net under some new form of international governance among those he anoints as the good guys, our benevolent new overloads.
Jeff Jarvis: A Struggle Over the Sovereignty of the Net and Nations Jeff Jarvis 2011
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They are dealing with things that were impossible to conceive of a decade ago: Instant access to everything, overloads of information, impermanence in all things, access to the darkest recesses of mankind through video and words by way of the Internet and so much more.
Ken Rabow: New Year's Resolutions for Parents and Troubled Teens Ken Rabow 2011
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