overuses

present tense third-person singular of overuse
as in exhausts
to use so much as to make less appealing she had overused that joke to the point where it was eliciting groans and not guffaws

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  • The idea of festivals just exhausts me.
    Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
  • If Le Pen exhausts the appeals process and truly cannot run for the presidency in 2027, the party already has an obvious candidate-in-waiting in Jordan Bardella.
    Cole Stangler, Time, 1 Apr. 2025
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“Overuses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overuses. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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