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Recent Examples of overdose
Goldstein, who suffered severe second- and third-degree burns on his arms and scalp, died a year later from a drug overdose.
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Ashley Hume, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
In 2022, over 109,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, roughly 76,000 of which were caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl or its copycats.
—Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Feb. 2025
Publicly known for clean living, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose amid a cloud of mystery.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
But overdose deaths started a rapid decline at the start of last year.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
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Ashley Hume, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2025
In 2022, over 109,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses, roughly 76,000 of which were caused by synthetic opioids such as fentanyl or its copycats.
—Gabrielle M. Etzel, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 6 Feb. 2025
Publicly known for clean living, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose amid a cloud of mystery.
—Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 8 Feb. 2025
But overdose deaths started a rapid decline at the start of last year.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN, 8 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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After years of a financial surplus, Maryland now faces an unprecedented fiscal challenge, one that will have far-reaching consequences for state programs, essential services and taxpayers.—
J.B. Jennings,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2025
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Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was virtually unchanged after Japan’s government reported a record current account surplus last year.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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Cook salmon: Remove salmon from marinade, discarding excess.—
Alana Al-Hatlani,
Southern Living,
27 Feb. 2025
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For the past three seasons, the series has revealed the quirks, impulses, excesses, dysfunctions, nuances and eccentricities of the wealthy against the backdrop of a luxury resort chain and its not-so faceless employees.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes,
24 Feb. 2025
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The investors who had pumped trillions of dollars into tech stocks over the last few years worried whether the tens of billions of dollars that tech companies were spending on new data centers suddenly looked like comic overkill.—
Karen Weise,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Even the Obama administration had not engaged in this kind of prosecutorial overkill.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Jan. 2025
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Dias and others from CEA were in Washington, D.C., and watched the hearing from the overflow room before attending the press conference with Murphy, former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and a number of parents and educators who voiced concerns about McMahon.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
14 Feb. 2025
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At President Trump’s inauguration, Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, was relegated to the overflow room while other tech billionaires like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg took prime spots on the dais under the Capitol rotunda.—
Cecilia Kang,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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These new forms of rational approach to the natural world created a surfeit of information often conveyed through equally new modes of visual address.—
Red Cameron,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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Toward the island’s center, explore mountainous terrain cloaked in tea plantations and a surfeit of Buddhist and Hindu temples.—
Paul Rubio,
AFAR Media,
23 Dec. 2024
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As the current trading year nears its end, crude oil markets are heading to 2025 in a largely bearish mood on familiar concerns of oversupply, lackluster demand from China and a stronger dollar.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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Since around 2020, Chinese auto brands, especially EV manufacturers, have been expanding internationally in search of more revenue as fierce competition and oversupply at home eat into their market share.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune Asia,
25 Nov. 2024
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The researchers examined three key eye measurements before and after spaceflight: ocular rigidity, which reflects the stiffness of eye tissue, intraocular pressure, the fluid pressure inside the eye, and ocular pulse amplitude, the variation in eye pressure with each heartbeat.—
Victoria Corless,
Space.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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Using computer simulations of general relativity, the team found that the amplitude of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal diminishes over time.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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