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Recent Examples of overdose
Her death was also ultimately ruled an accidental drug overdose.
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
On the day of Netflix's Aka Charlie Sheen docuseries release, the talk show stars reacted to 60-year-old Charlie's recent interview with ABC News' Michael Strahan, during which the star reflected on his dad turning him in to authorities for violating his probation following a 1998 overdose.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, just two milligrams of fentanyl, the size of just a few grains of sand, can result in an overdose, according to the website for Customs and Border Protection.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The boxes provide free, easy access to naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an overdose and help reduce opioid overdose deaths, the health department said in a news release.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Victoria Edel, People.com, 10 Sep. 2025
On the day of Netflix's Aka Charlie Sheen docuseries release, the talk show stars reacted to 60-year-old Charlie's recent interview with ABC News' Michael Strahan, during which the star reflected on his dad turning him in to authorities for violating his probation following a 1998 overdose.
—Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
Meanwhile, just two milligrams of fentanyl, the size of just a few grains of sand, can result in an overdose, according to the website for Customs and Border Protection.
—Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025
The boxes provide free, easy access to naloxone, a medication that can reverse the effects of an overdose and help reduce opioid overdose deaths, the health department said in a news release.
—Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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Abiy has said the dam will improve access to electricity for the almost half the population who had none as recently as 2022, and export the surplus to the region.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025
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There is even a world in which Winnipeg’s best play is to forget about its surplus of veteran defencemen, giving Salomonsson third-pairing minutes as soon as this season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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In 1956, long before those flashy rhinestone jumpsuits, the infamous Jungle Room, and all the Vegas excess, Elvis was just a handsome, super-talented guy playing high schools and military bases along the Gulf coast.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
13 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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What has the city done about the overflows?—
Gillian Stawiszynski,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
11 Sep. 2025
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And, for overflow guests—or to get away from guests—a total retreat is found in the one-bedroom guesthouse, which has a private entrance, a full kitchen, and even its own garage.—
Tori Latham,
Robb Report,
10 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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Faced with oversupply, QatarGas could decide to hold back some volumes — or push them on to the market at lower prices in a bid to incentivize demand and boost market share.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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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
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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
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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
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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