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Recent Examples of overabundance Particularly in complex urban environments where there is an overabundance of unpredictability and weird street grids. Brooke Crothers, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 So these companies are basically backing away in an overabundance of caution. Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 7 June 2025 The overabundance of threes creates a stylistic problem for the NBA, said Curry. Alex Sherman, CNBC, 5 June 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 See All Example Sentences for overabundance
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Noun
  • Delaware tops the list, where mortgage-free retirees have an annual surplus of $1,764.
    Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • One tenth of the remaining surplus will be used to form a national cobalt reserve, while the rest, Tshisekedi said, would be handed to small-scale miners.
    semafor.com, semafor.com, 24 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To some market watchers, Nvidia’s latest deals feel all-too-similar to the excesses of past technology booms.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • While the first game trafficked in elegant neatness, Hades II is practically bursting at the seams with excess.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Authorities determined the package was not explosive but detonated it out of an abundance of caution, a USU spokesperson told Newsweek in an email Tuesday evening.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Only with today’s machines and technology do scientists stand a chance of keeping up with life’s abundance.
    Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2025

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“Overabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overabundance. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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