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taxed

verb

past tense of tax

as in stretched

to subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress your constant arguing is starting to tax my patience

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The exhibition lays claim to the body as the superintending conceit of Warhol’s corpus—an argument often strained by inclusions here of the Hammer & Sickle (1976) works or allusions to the film Sleep (1964).

Ara H. Merjian, ARTnews.com, 4 Oct. 2024
In Brockton, Massachusetts, immigrants from a variety of countries, including Haiti, Cape Verde and countries in Central and South America, have strained local resources — though mostly in the form of emergency shelter capacity.

Rob Wile, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2024

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