1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page181:
My husband stayed for some days with the magistrate at Cardwell, recruiting his health and recovering from hisfatigues, for the passage between Cape York and Cardwell had proved the most tedious and anxious part of the voyage.
2012 December 29, Paul Doyle, “Arsenal'sTheo Walcott hits hat-trick in thrilling victory over Newcastle”, inThe Guardian[1]:
Alan Pardew finished by far the most frustrated man at theEmirates, blamingfatigue for the fact that Arsenal were able to kill his team off in the dying minutes.
2024 April 22, Matt Stevens, Shivani Gonzalez, “Taylor Swift Has Given Fans a Lot. Is It Finally Too Much?”, inThe New York Times[2],→ISSN:
For some, the constant deluge that has peaked in the past year is starting to add up to a new (and previously unthinkable) feeling: Taylor Swiftfatigue.
2024, NTSB,NTSB Finds Multiple Safety Lapses in 2022 Fatal Collision Between Truck and Party Bus:
We found that a comprehensivefatigue management program can reducefatigue-related crash risk and improve safety by, for example, educating drivers; had Triton had such a program, the driver may not have been operating the truck while fatigued.
(often in theplural) A menial task or tasks, especially in the military.
Moreover, the habits of business are the most enduring of any; and Lord Norbourne's most positive enjoyment was in what are called thefatigues of office.
He was slouched in the chair behind the duty officer’s desk, cigarette dangling from his lips, hands thrust deep into hisfatigue pockets, making a display of his disrespect. The acting clerk, cowering behind his own desk, was either afraid to insist he assume a more military posture, or else didn’t care.
1998, William T. Craig,Team Sergeant: A Special Forces NCO at Lang Vei and Beyond, New York, N.Y.: Ivy Books,→ISBN,page27:
He reluctantly took the map from his camouflagefatigue pocket.
Spencer came with all the soft-skill attributes of a desk officer. Double chin, bulging belly testing the tensile strength of the lower two buttons of hisfatigue top, and wired-rimmed glasses that sat atop a pointed nose with mismatched nostrils.
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