as in overly
beyond a normal or acceptable limit
noise from the party was excessively loud
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Adverb
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Noah Baumbach) Read Variety’s review: George Clooney plays a version of himself in Noah Baumbach’s lightly diverting but overly soft inside-Hollywood drama.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
29 Aug. 2025 -
By the early 2000s, Rolling Stone seemed overly preoccupied with Boomer artists of fading vitality; Spin, while containing punchy criticism, was a glossy consumer magazine inflected by celebrity and fashion.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
29 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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But this preseason, the circumstances that so often befell a roster already too thin to begin with didn’t manifest themselves for a change.—
Howard Megdal,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Cases have been reported in coastal areas on Cape Cod, Maine and Long Island, New York, too.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Excessively.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/excessively. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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