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Recent Examples of overabundance Zucchini overabundance is a common predicament for home gardeners. Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appetit Magazine, 30 May 2025 The lack of a consistent narrative flow was also partly due to the overabundance of various advantages and twists at play. Dalton Ross, EW.com, 15 May 2025 Media executives and their advisers have been saying for years that the industry needs a drastic overhaul to address its new reality: an overabundance of streaming options and the decline of the legacy cable industry. Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025 Although aimed at improving engagement, an overabundance of irrelevant messages leads to diminished interest and wastage of valuable resources. Harshit Jain, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for overabundance
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Noun
  • He is credited with the key leadership role in creating Palm Springs’ Measure J, a 1% sales tax increase that helped to fund a $200 million downtown revitalization program and providing a surplus of $12 million per year to rebuild the city’s infrastructure.
    Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The bigger risk is OPEC+ deciding to reinstate supply cuts, given concerns about a surplus.
    Ruxandra Iordache, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The ruling landed as a symbolic rebuke of Musk’s sway over Tesla, and a warning about the excesses of Silicon Valley’s cult-of-founder ethos.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 5 Sep. 2025
  • An excess of dry fuels and vegetation is compounded by fire weather conditions that are becoming more common year-round.
    John Leos, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • An optimal management portfolio integrates systems thinking for ecosystemic coherence, exponential thinking for strategic foresight, abundance thinking for post-scarcity paradigms and design thinking for human-centric innovation.
    Ingrid Vasiliu Feltes, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Still, while there's not an abundance of precedents, Bespoke Investment Group reminds us that in the past when the Fed has cut rates after a long pause with equity indexes near a record, the forward-looking stock returns have been better-than-average.
    Michael Santoli, CNBC, 9 Sep. 2025

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“Overabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overabundance. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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