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To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery.


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To be burned out is to be used up, like a battery so depleted that it can’t be recharged. In people, unlike batteries, it is said to produce the defining symptoms of “burnout syndrome”: exhaustion, cynicism, and loss of efficacy.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/24/burnout-modern-affliction-or-human-condition

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re:POSTEDBy Andrew Keller

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