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Examples of overuse


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Although the term 'listening' seems to be overused in the literature on communication and counselling skills, it is undoubtedly the most important.
He found that learners at all proficiency levels overused direct requests and underused nonconventionallyindirect requests (hints).
Kindergartners overused letters from their own first names (or commonly used nicknames) when spelling.
Despite denials that they made any such claim, there is little doubt that in the first flush of enthusiasm some analytical tools were overused.
Introspection can thus be overused to become a comfortable illusion for the theorist, and an obstacle for science.
Classifying something as being overused and stale does not immediately call to mind a distinctive linguistic category.
As one can expect, the central government will continue spending money on the ground subsidence problem as long as groundwater is overused in this area.
They are not overused; they are just used.
Thus, common nouns that were used as proper names formed a category of bare nouns that was clearly overused by children, particularly at younger ages.
Both tests are probably overused with a high rate of inappropriateness.
The results show that in the cultural, general, and structural categories, the intermediate students overused the more than both the low-level and the advanced students, respectively.
While introspection can be useful for the generation of ideas, it can also be overused and become a comfortable illusion for the theorist and an obstacle for science.
The supply of object agreement cannot be due to a general strategy of overusing agreement, since object agreement does not occur in prohibited contexts such as intransitive clauses.
To explain kindergartners' overuse of letters from their own names, we postulate that letter frequency is an individual matter for young children.
The finding that go3 was overused by the participants is pertinent to theorizing about the use of a general classifier by very young children.
The noun ' experience ' is overused and in a confusing variety of contexts (for example on pp. 3, 4, and four times on p. 9).
I know that the phrase "the people" is overused and debased.
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An examination of central banks throughout the world reveals that there is no clear pattern—indeed, the word "independence" is overused.
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The language of crisis can easily be overused.
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A good and useful antibiotic, septrin, one of the ingredients of which is trimethoprim, was overused and badly used some years ago.
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I note that, where the road infrastructure is overused, highly polluted, or presents particular problems, there would be justification for grant support.
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I sincerely hope—"sincerely" was overused in his speech — that that turns out to be unfounded.
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A railway line that is underused runs almost parallel, for miles and miles, to a road that is greatly overused.
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I believe that it will be regarded as a tougher suspended sentence and will be overused.
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In most other rivers the opposite is the case, and they are very much overused.
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Trains are overcrowded, especially at peak times, and the track is congested and arguably overused.
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My concern is that phones have real health risks if overused, especially by young children.
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The term "veto" has been misused and overused.
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I think that the adjectival qualification "mini" is being overused in a thousand different contexts.
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However user-friendly the citizens' initiative is, if it is overused it will become devalued.
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I think it must frankly be said that the word "crisis" has been much overused.
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We are all in favour of efficiency, but it can be rather overused as an excuse.
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The soil is being overused and exhausted as a consequence.
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Perhaps the word "unique" has been overused in this debate.
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Although the expression is overused, the words "unsung heroes" come to mind.
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Both those words are overused, but they are right in this context.
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Were it not for the fact that the term 'historic' has been overused on many occasions, no doubt we would be able to use it in this instance too.
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Therefore, the technical excuse is overused.
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Secondly, there are numerous atypical melodic gestures and skips, odd adaptations, the overuse and over-manipulation of formulae.
Despite this, the group have been criticized for their over-use of electronic sound.
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He claimed resettlement would resolve the country's recurring drought problem and would ease population pressure from northern areas where the land had been badly overused.
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Training grounds are usually separate from a team's stadium, as clubs use the facilities to avoid overusing the stadium's pitch.
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The call, when overused, can scare plant eaters, or attract meat eaters to your location, so be careful.
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The concerns of overusing the computer are becoming so real that studies show just how the body deteriorates with prolonged sitting.
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Obviously the problem here is with gender and not with number, and the prevailing tendency is to overuse uter gender and to underuse neuter.
Due to this limitation, those who over-use their gift quickly collapse or die when they overspend their own natural energy.
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The negative side-effects of overusing technology have in recent decades attracted increasing attention as a legitimate psychological disorder.
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Excessive s t i m u l a t i o n of neural-mast-cell units might contribute to overuse tendinopathy.
He dies while over-using his powers to save 30 people who should have died from their wounds.
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Multiple heart transplants were performed, but each heart was removed when overused.
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The game's artificial intelligence has also been adjusted to prevent players from overusing the same move.
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You know that this element has been overused in the past and is considered cliched or cheesy, but the song needs it.
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Of course, providers are inclined to overuse overpriced services.
Another is that the cosmic cataclysm was due to over-use of a faster than light drive which warped the fabric of space.
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Changing passwords to prevent over-use and involving a trusted family member or friend in managing accounts can prevent financial issues.
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Because of its irregularity and unpredictability, over-use of the suffix "-um-" is discouraged.
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Gynecologic ultrasonography is sometimes overused when it is used to screen for ovarian cancer in women who are not at risk for this cancer.
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However, the abandonment of these subsidies does not necessarily translate into a complete solution to the problem of pesticide overuse or misuse.
Fourth, the absence of feedback linkages between environmental and social systems leads to overuse of the former.
His overuse of tense is unfortunate, and the absence of any discussion of infinitivals with person inflection or morphological tense is disappointing.
Damage due to overuse can occur if the exercise is of too high an intensity or too long in duration.
The common types of rules are those related to the overuse of water and maintenance of water quality.
Much of the forest has been degraded through over-use, and thorn forests and shrub thickets are common.
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They expressed concern about the overuse of guidelines, particularly those that were not evidence based.
Avoidance of the particular item, and an overuse of simpler constructions, may result from learners' awareness of previous errors.
Mangroves thus constitute a public good, for which property rights must be defined in order to mitigate overuse and eventual destruction of the resource.
He used to want from people protect themselves overusing the things that neither recommended nor forbidden by religious law like that overeating and oversleeping.
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Quotation marks may be used (though should not be overused) to express ironic or other emotional overtones.
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While this does not affect monster health it does affect loyalty; over-use can lead to monsters rebelling in the middle of a show.
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However, in actuality, only a small percentage of patients experience three of those four symptoms, and occurs more frequently among those who have overused alcohol.
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Uncontrolled access to specialists leads to overuse and duplication of diagnostic services and increased public and private expenditure.
At the same time, it is not at all uncommon to hear teachers commenting on the overuse of the progressive by students.
My photographs tell stories of loss, human struggle, and personal exploration within landscapes scarred by technology and over-use.
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The nutrient rich land is overused, overgrazed, and will slowly be depleted of its natural resources.
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Patellar tendinitis causes the tendon to be torn in the middle due to the tissue damage it has been acquiring from over-use.
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You'd think people would think it's been overused, but the more it's used the more people seem to want to use it.
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There are additional concerns that horses are underfed and overused, repeatedly roped until lame, with rope burns down to the bone.
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He also felt the splash pages were overused and did not like lack of conclusion.
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Although fire is a natural and necessary occurrence in forest and range ecosystems, it was overused by cattlemen, sheepherders, lumbermen and prospectors in the 1800s.
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Such overuse is thus not textual but overuse with general reference nouns.
Although he, too, enjoyed the musical variety, he believed the composers overused the guitar and synthesizers.
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Atropine has no anti-diarrheal properties, but will cause tachycardia when overused.
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Health is recovered by the use of morphine syringes, which can blur the player's vision if overused.
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Training oversights occurs when the body is overused.
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As the drugs used can make patients calmer and more compliant, critics claim that the drugs can be overused.
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Though many renewable resources do not have such a rapid recovery rate, these resources are susceptible to depletion by over-use.
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Although she regarded it as funny at times, she found the use of the mockumentary format exhausted and overused.
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He has a tendency to over-use the word fantastic and is always trying to make money for the school.
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A backlash developed as the cutter's use became more widespread, due to concerns that a pitcher overusing the pitch could develop arm fatigue.
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If overused, they may leave viewers uncertain as to what they are seeing.
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Due to age, overuse, and poor maintenance, the efficiency of delivery of the canal system is only 35-40 per cent of rated capacity.
However, the attribute is sometimes overused and can sometimes cause many windows to be created even while browsing a single site.
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Much later, in his fifties, he developed post-polio syndrome, characterized by pain and muscle weakness caused by the chronic over-use of partially paralyzed muscles.
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If overused, he will cough instead, making him vulnerable for a moment.
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The tendency of kindergartners and first graders to overuse letters from the beginning of the alphabet probably reflects differences in experienced frequency as well.
The results so far show that kindergartners with low levels of reading skill tend to overuse letters from their own names when spelling other words.
In some regions, local authorities overused their power to force people to take part in the elections.
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She also described a startling analysis of potential negative effects of overuse of medical technology.
Why did the children overuse the general classifier ?
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