exceedance
noun
ex·ceed·ance
ik-ˈsē-dᵊn(t)s 
variants
or less commonly exceedence
: an act or instance of exceeding especially a limit or amount
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The exceedance days all occurred during a streak of record-breaking high daily temperatures in early October.
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Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
The exceedances happened in Mesa, west Phoenix and Glendale.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
Mother’s Beach suffers from very poor water circulation leading to chronic bacterial exceedances, placing it ninth.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 20 July 2024
Heckler argues the company has taken action to prevent such exceedances in the future.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
Employees from the state health department measured air quality around the Valdez Library, which is across I-70 from the plant, in November 2021 and found two exceedances of state air quality standards, according to the lawsuit.
—Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 29 May 2024
And while the number of monitoring stations recording a breach of the ozone threshold was fewer this year than in previous years, the duration of the exceedance was higher.
—WIRED, 19 June 2023
The authorities said the company will pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 May 2023
Residents have remained at their apartments in the development's West Block, where there were lower concentrations of contamination and the system has shown no exceedances in past indoor air sampling, according to the DNR.
—Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
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Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
The exceedances happened in Mesa, west Phoenix and Glendale.
—Austin Corona, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2024
Mother’s Beach suffers from very poor water circulation leading to chronic bacterial exceedances, placing it ninth.
—Bruce Haring, Deadline, 20 July 2024
Heckler argues the company has taken action to prevent such exceedances in the future.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 5 July 2024
Employees from the state health department measured air quality around the Valdez Library, which is across I-70 from the plant, in November 2021 and found two exceedances of state air quality standards, according to the lawsuit.
—Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post, 29 May 2024
And while the number of monitoring stations recording a breach of the ozone threshold was fewer this year than in previous years, the duration of the exceedance was higher.
—WIRED, 19 June 2023
The authorities said the company will pay additional monthly civil penalties for the rest of 2023 for any further exceedances.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 25 May 2023
Residents have remained at their apartments in the development's West Block, where there were lower concentrations of contamination and the system has shown no exceedances in past indoor air sampling, according to the DNR.
—Alison Dirr, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
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“Exceedance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exceedance. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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