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Noun
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That, and the surplus of mentors who played for Dad before him.—
Sam Cohn,
Baltimore Sun,
24 Mar. 2025 -
During the Legislature’s budget session in 2023, Minnesota was working with an $18 billion surplus and approved a budget of $72 billion, a jump from the previous $52 billion budget.—
Mary Murphy,
Twin Cities,
22 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In particular, smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, skipping sleep, using recreational drugs (like marijuana), and downing a ton of sugar may all contribute to an excess of those free-wheeling free radicals and impair your body’s ability to defend against them.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
18 Apr. 2025
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Many retailers have likely rushed their orders to get ahead of these levies, which can lead to an excess of inventory and a need to liquidate for cash.—
Morgan Chittum,
CNBC,
16 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Not business as usual The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Since the 2015 Progeny box already gave us seven full concerts from the same tour, an additional show is welcome, but a bit of an overkill.—
Ernesto Lechner,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2025
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This might sound like overkill, but as the car heats up and snow starts to slide, roof snow can fall onto windshields and obscure vision at intersections or when pressing on the brakes.—
Kade Krichko,
Outside Online,
6 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Under Lightfoot, the district benefited from a surfeit of federal stimulus dollars that went to hiring.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Apr. 2025
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There are plenty of period pieces on TV, too, with a surfeit of fun costumes and grand settings and now-foreign social rules.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
18 June 2024
Noun
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A little more than a year ago, his 39-year-old son, Adam Harrison, died from an accidental drug overdose.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
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Exceeding this dose can result in an overdose.—
Rosanna Sutherby, PharmD,
Verywell Health,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Is the Tequila boom over, and is the industry suffering from a massive oversupply of products?—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Decades after the Flexner Report, in 1980, policymakers anticipated a physician oversupply based on medical school enrollment projections and government investments in the medical workforce.—
Nicole McCann,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Captured within a radar image are two pieces of information: amplitude and phase.—
Laurie Winkless,
Forbes.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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The April-to-September range had an amplitude of £154.—
MoneyShow,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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