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Recent Examples of overdose
Robertson felt guilty when Scorsese almost died from an overdose.
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David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
Drug-overdose numbers exploded.
—David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
McIver, Baretto and Epperson allegedly supplied the drugs that led to De Niro Rodriguez's overdose.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Five people were arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the 2023 overdose deaths of Robert De Niro's grandson and Chris Stein's daughter, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
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David Browne, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2025
Drug-overdose numbers exploded.
—David Merritt Johns, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
McIver, Baretto and Epperson allegedly supplied the drugs that led to De Niro Rodriguez's overdose.
—Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 30 Oct. 2025
Five people were arrested Thursday on charges stemming from the 2023 overdose deaths of Robert De Niro's grandson and Chris Stein's daughter, law enforcement sources told ABC News.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 30 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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As providers warn of layoffs and a system nearing collapse, the contrast between the agency's austerity measures and the state's multi-billion dollar surplus remains a central point of contention for advocates and legislators alike.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
9 Jan. 2026
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But in the years since, Sacramento has failed to act to address the massive debt incurred during the pandemic, despite having a $100 billion surplus in recent years.—
Vince Fong,
Oc Register,
8 Jan. 2026
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The process could, in fact, help rectify that excess of grapes, causing supply to eventually even out with demand.—
Nicole Hoey,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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Unless the category could be brought under control, the excess threatened to self-propagate.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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The defense has argued that police waited too long to read Mangione his Miranda rights and that the police actions amounted to overkill.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
12 Dec. 2025
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Proving that there’s nothing MAGA love like overkill, there’s also whole lot of George Washington (including a historically daft 2010 Dodge Challenger ad) in the almost hangover inducing 40-second spot.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Taken together, the deals suggest that Downtown Manhattan is no longer simply benefiting from overflow demand.—
Abby Montanez,
Robb Report,
7 Jan. 2026
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The vote followed hours of public input that filled the overflow room at the Carnegie Town Hall.—
Vanessa Carlson Bender,
Sioux Falls Argus Leader,
7 Jan. 2026
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The Islamic State emerged from the ferment of Syria’s civil war in the early 2010s, when Syria’s porous borders and surfeit of Islamist fighters offered fertile recruiting ground for all manner of jihadi groups.—
Matt Bradley,
NBC news,
20 Dec. 2025
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The surfeit of deluxe editions should help the album reach the Billboard 200’s top 10, though continuing the group’s streak of top twos might be a bit out of reach.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
19 Nov. 2025
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The analysts cited power oversupply.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
9 Jan. 2026
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An oversupply of milk and weaker consumer demand are causing dairy prices to fall.—
Marina Johnson,
Louisville Courier Journal,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead of standard binary coding information utilizing electronic circuits using signals of ones and zeros, the researchers use the amplitude and phase of light waves to store, process, and communicate data.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Dec. 2025
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For adults, chiropractors generally use HVLA (high velocity, low amplitude) thrusting adjustments—quick manipulations of the neck or back that sometimes produce cracking or popping sounds.—
Jillian Pretzel,
Parents,
29 Nov. 2025
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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