Help
Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.
Overuse
Overuse verb - To use so much as to make less appealing.
Both words in one sentence
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It's Norman's overuse of ARI that's implied to be the cause of his hallucinations, and he takes Triptocaine — again, to excess — to help him deal with the adverse effects of his dives into ARI.
Source: Video Game / Heavy Rain - Also working against Sanctum are its overuse of Copy And Paste Environments, AI partners who do more to harm than help, and the general monotony of gameplay (get trapped in a room, fight a bunch of color-coded ghosts, move on to next room, rinse, repeat).
Source: The Problem with Licensed Games
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