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Recent Examples of overdose
In the series finale, Zendaya’s Rue died of an fentanyl overdose after taking a laced pill from Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje’s Alamo Brown.
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
Their co-star River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in 1993 at just 23 years old.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Nowell died of a heroin overdose shortly before Sublime’s release, and his son Jakob, who was an infant at the time, now takes over the family business.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
In Colorado, accidental overdose is the second-leading cause of death among people during pregnancy and the first year after birth.
—Karli Swenson, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
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Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 17 June 2026
Their co-star River Phoenix died of a drug overdose in 1993 at just 23 years old.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 16 June 2026
Nowell died of a heroin overdose shortly before Sublime’s release, and his son Jakob, who was an infant at the time, now takes over the family business.
—Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 15 June 2026
In Colorado, accidental overdose is the second-leading cause of death among people during pregnancy and the first year after birth.
—Karli Swenson, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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In 2022, California recorded a nearly $100 billion surplus, saved just $10 billion in its rainy day fund and then spent the rest.—
Mike Gatto,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
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Those include requiring property owners to file a claim with the government for any surplus proceeds from the tax sale.—
Maureen Groppe,
USA Today,
23 June 2026
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Stylish excesses are dialed back as cleaner camerawork, steadier editing and Farrell’s tender narration let the character breathe, blending sci-fi curiosity with classic detective-story stakes.—
Robert Lloyd,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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And some creators, like Yeezy, see their right to print guns as an essential bulwark against the darkest excesses of America’s current government.—
Jack Crosbie,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
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Routing them through a reasoning agent is expensive overkill.—
Jakob Freund,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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But in Steyer’s case, his recent unrelenting attack ads against surging Becerra — now his chief campaign rival — are disturbing and seem like overkill.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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In 2002, a city councilor promoting the Pittsburgh Triathlon had to swap the swim leg for a bike leg after an overflow.—
Daniel Bain,
The Conversation,
22 June 2026
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According to Cyril Xaba, the mayor of Durban, the new facility is being set up in response to a sharp rise in arrivals at the Sherwood site, and would serve as an overflow site to reduce overcrowding.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
20 June 2026
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That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.—
Daniel Fienberg,
HollywoodReporter,
15 June 2026
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Elsewhere, the autopsy claims that Harris’ campaign didn’t sufficiently incorporate polling data into its messaging, as if her operation suffered from a surfeit of authenticity and spontaneity.—
Michelle Goldberg,
Mercury News,
29 May 2026
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Still, tech companies’ race to invest in the expansion of AI infrastructure could ultimately be sowing the seeds of future oversupply, according to Philip Straehl, chief investment officer at Morningstar Wealth.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
23 June 2026
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But that oversupply has evaporated and rapidly turned into a concerning deficit.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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Imagined through a multigenerational lens, the collection offers an amplitude of points of view, inspirations and ideas.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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Brown collected speech examples of 49 Canadians from online sources and analyzed the samples using the telltale acoustic markers of vocal fry, such as low and/or irregular pitch, spectral tilt (differences in amplitude between the first and second harmonics), and harmonics-to-noise ratios.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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