as in surplus
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of overdose
Researchers measured violent and property crime data from 2023, fatal car accidents, drug overdose deaths and excessive drinking rates.
—
Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
For years now, health officials have battled with drugs being cut into fentanyl that not only increase its strength, but also increase the risk of a fatal overdose.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Cartwright’s husband, Warren Southern, died at 73 of a cardiac arrest in 2021, and a year later, her son, Jerome White, died at 52 of an accidental overdose.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Putin is scheduled to visit India later this year, and the mood in Delhi is filled with an overdose of optimism toward Russia and China.
—Happymon Jacob, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overdose
Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Sep. 2025
For years now, health officials have battled with drugs being cut into fentanyl that not only increase its strength, but also increase the risk of a fatal overdose.
—David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
Cartwright’s husband, Warren Southern, died at 73 of a cardiac arrest in 2021, and a year later, her son, Jerome White, died at 52 of an accidental overdose.
—Jose R. Gonzalez, AZCentral.com, 4 Sep. 2025
Advertisement Advertisement Putin is scheduled to visit India later this year, and the mood in Delhi is filled with an overdose of optimism toward Russia and China.
—Happymon Jacob, Time, 3 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overdose
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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
-
And while the design and features are tailored to gamers, the Alienware Aurora also doubles as an overkill workstation, offering unmatched performance for video editing, graphic design, and 3D modeling.—
Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
-
In what seems like downbeat overkill, his sweet old dog’s cancer has spread, forcing him to have the animal euthanized.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
This would prevent combined sewer overflows, which is when sewage floods area stormwater lines and deposits into local waterbodies.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
3 Sep. 2025
-
Trosclair advises against using your bathroom for closet overflow or for storing out-of-season clothes that won’t be touched for months until the weather shifts.—
Hallie Milstein,
Southern Living,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
-
Maybe the nuns could be transformed into spa therapists at a wellness retreat and the toxin explained away as a surfeit of matcha.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
-
Lali is cheerful and spry, with a surfeit of energy—sprinting for no reason, flourishing her movements, meowing ten times in a row.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
At the same time, many airlines are now rethinking their capacity plans as an oversupply of flights has weighed on fares and eaten into their profits this year.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
-
While oversupply does exist, demand is also dropping faster because of AI efficiencies.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 Aug. 2025
Noun
-
The amplituhedron is an incredibly powerful calculational tool, enabling those who work with them to compute — by hand, mind you — scattering amplitudes for problems that could not have been feasibly calculated even by a computer beforehand.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
-
The copious observations and reflections that the speaker relates expand the movie—a mere seventy-one minutes long—into a work of novelistic amplitude.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
Share