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Recent Examples of overdose
The rate of overdose deaths linked to IMFs has remained relatively stable over the past three years in most parts of the country; they were detected in roughly 70 percent to 80 percent of overdose deaths between 2021 and 2024 in the Northeast, Midwest and South.
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Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
The Met has ruled Ambassador Jun Chen’s death a heroin overdose, but his colleagues are very skeptical.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Thirty days later, Florida emergency room prescription opioid overdoses plummeted.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
His younger brother Lapo, an eccentric playboy and fashionista, nearly died from a drug overdose in 2005.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Alejandra O’Connell-Domenech, The Hill, 6 Dec. 2024
The Met has ruled Ambassador Jun Chen’s death a heroin overdose, but his colleagues are very skeptical.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2024
Thirty days later, Florida emergency room prescription opioid overdoses plummeted.
—Pat Beall, Sun Sentinel, 29 Nov. 2024
His younger brother Lapo, an eccentric playboy and fashionista, nearly died from a drug overdose in 2005.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 2 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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Austria, known for its use of hydroelectric power, offers an ideal environment for leveraging surplus renewable energy, and a pilot project to use bitcoin mining to help with grid stability is underway between the Austrian Power Grid and 21Energy.Susie Violet Ward, Forbes, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Van Winkle Whiskey Collection is back, and this year’s release includes an unusual surplus of 20-Year-Old and 23-Year-Old Family Reserve Bourbons.Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 14 Dec. 2024
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The future of pop, Murphy says, is tipping toward honest excess.Scottie Andrew, CNN, 14 Dec. 2024
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Occupational licensing excesses have been subjected to bipartisan criticism.Alden Abbott, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
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The scene repeats the joke too many times at the end, but the joy of watching Yang get sprayed in the face by a hose makes up for a bit of comic overkill.Ian Crouch, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2024
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In the wake of the presidential election this month, the validity or not of the word Latinx was again brought up, but all the handwringing and dramatic reaction feels like overkill.Leila Cobo, Billboard, 25 Nov. 2024
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Sewer overflows caused by clogs can contaminate local waterways, affecting wildlife and public health.Earl Foster, Austin American-Statesman, 5 Dec. 2024
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Those who want dinner need to arrive by 5 p.m. Women utilizing the winter contingency overflow will be required to leave the facility by a.m. daily.Noe Padilla, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2024
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From the start, Chu gives Wicked an accelerated pace, amping it with restless, swooping camerawork and overloading it with a surfeit of everything, with ceaselessly moving bodies and eye-popping props.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
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Not ecstasy, not satisfaction, not a surfeit of pleasure or accomplishment.Jason Chen, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2024
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As such, commodities companies, and industries reliant on them, feel pressure to decarbonize and go circular while delivering growth under a backdrop of systemic oversupply.Jeffrey Skelton, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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This is not the case with Japan though, which is dealing with an oversupply of properties.Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 3 Nov. 2024
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In REM sleep, brain waves are low in amplitude and relatively fast, and the eye movements are rapid, too.Beth Ann Malow, Discover Magazine, 24 Nov. 2024
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The amplitudes take the form of fractions, with a numerator above a denominator.Charlie Wood, WIRED, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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