EXCESSED Synonyms: 39 Similar and Opposite Words

excessed

verb

past tense of excess

as in downsized

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With the rolling back of sustainability reporting requirements, businesses also downsized their sustainability teams, often rolling them under existing departments with limited scope.

— Jon McGowan, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
Functions still at the department include the agency’s research arms, though they’ve been heavily downsized.

— Alia Wong, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026

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Blake Snell — who also had loose bodies removed from his pitching elbow, undergoing a NanoNeedle Scope procedure on May 19 — threw two simulated innings to batters Saturday.

— Maddie Lee, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
Lime and hard-water deposits can be removed by soaking all the parts in warm white vinegar for a few hours.

— Tim Carter, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2026

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Social Security benefits — paid mostly to recipients who are older or retired — are typically scheduled to go out on Wednesdays.

— Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 6 July 2026
Carpino retired in April, without ever explaining what was not right in the organization or, based on the standings, repairing it.

— Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

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Jason Melara’s attorney, Andrew Stein, asked the two murder charges be dismissed, telling Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Curtis Rappe there was no evidence his client pointed a gun at Aguilar.

— Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
In 2023, researchers at MIT and elsewhere proposed that the bright white chunks scattered throughout Roman concrete—known as lime clasts and long dismissed as evidence of incomplete mixing—could help explain the material’s self-healing properties.

— Sam Macdonald, Scientific American, 11 July 2026

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The department said that, as a result of an internal investigation, Flores was effectively terminated from his role at the department on June 9.

— Seamus Bozeman Follow, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026
New research from Omdia, commissioned by Apica and surveying 300 enterprise IT decision-makers, found that 59% of enterprises have already terminated or delayed an agentic AI deployment because observability costs have become unmanageable.

— Andi Mann, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026

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Don’t Use The Oven Most canning recipes call for using a boiling water method or a pressure canner, depending on the acidity of the food being canned.

— Josh Miller, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
How to Eat Lentils are available dried or pre-cooked and canned, which is a convenient option for last-minute meals.

— Kirsten Nunez, Martha Stewart, 20 June 2026

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