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Recent Examples of overabundance That accurately suggests an overabundance of good choices, which helps explain why the race seemed to go down to the wire. Keith Phipps, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025 Much of California’s wildlands are ripe to burn this summer, after two years of record wet winters followed by record hot temperatures left an overabundance of dry brush vegetation. Ari Plachta, Sacramento Bee, 28 Feb. 2025 This is not only straightforward, but should be simple enough given an overabundance of Unova Pokémon during the upcoming event. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025 Texas Kids The one club with an overabundance of rookies who could stick is the Texas Rangers. Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overabundance
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Noun
  • And the $529 million shortfall already assumes $300 million in TIF surplus.
    Nell Salzman, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
  • At Tuesday’s meeting, the school board was informed that the surplus of federal funds that had been used to offer free lunch throughout the district for the past school year was finally depleted.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 14 May 2025
Noun
  • Mania, the one side of its polarity, wants novelty, power, movement, excess.
    Cameron Esposito, Glamour, 12 May 2025
  • Amid low hope for progress, one positive outcome for financial markets in talks would be an agreement to bring down tariffs from an excess of 100 percent to levels allowing products to flow each way, Reuters reported.
    Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 May 2025
Noun
  • First and foremost, abundance means building housing.
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2025
  • Judges do that in an abundance of caution to ensure every potential connection is explored to find jurors without conflicts who can be fair and impartial.
    Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN Money, 6 May 2025

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“Overabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overabundance. Accessed 21 May. 2025.

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