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Recent Examples of overdose
Llanes also testified about Forti’s texts after hearing about Le’s overdose.
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
For anyone taking an opioid medication, keep naloxone nasal spray on hand to reverse an overdose.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026
Castmate Matthew Perry died in 2023 from a drug overdose at age 54.
—Tracy Smith, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Reissfelder was found dead of a suspicious drug overdose a year after the robbery.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
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Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 25 Mar. 2026
For anyone taking an opioid medication, keep naloxone nasal spray on hand to reverse an overdose.
—Nicole Villalpando, Austin American Statesman, 24 Mar. 2026
Castmate Matthew Perry died in 2023 from a drug overdose at age 54.
—Tracy Smith, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Reissfelder was found dead of a suspicious drug overdose a year after the robbery.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 22 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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The film’s surplus of action and chase scenes follows the same rigid formula of swooping camera movements and game power-up deus ex machinas that no sequence ever proves particularly exciting.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Bryant School is just one surplus building.—
Thomas White,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
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Set in a secluded Catalonian villa, the irksomely stylish story centers on a rich family living in insulated excess until an outsider disrupts their precarious peace.—
Alison Foreman,
IndieWire,
27 Mar. 2026
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That delirious excess befits the essence of Lapid’s method, which is a fusion of fiction with indigestibly and irreducibly nonfictional elements.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
27 Mar. 2026
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While horror remains popular with audiences and relatively cheap to produce, the genre may be approaching overkill.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2026
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This is starting to feel like overkill.—
Corey Masisak,
Denver Post,
22 Mar. 2026
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Dilemmas like Pedraza’s are increasingly common in San Joaquin County, which has long served as a sort of overflow zone for the Bay Area’s housing crisis.—
Connor Letourneau,
San Francisco Chronicle,
28 Mar. 2026
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Generations of medical students have voiced their desire for more nutrition education, especially for practical knowledge to address numerous questions from their patients and to untangle the overflow of information and misinformation from contemporary media.—
Christopher Duggan,
STAT,
27 Mar. 2026
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The President and the explorer share a few traits, including a surfeit of self confidence.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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Magic potions get involved — not to mention a surfeit of whimsy — but the actor does his best to ground the cutesiness in something real.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
7 Mar. 2026
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Because of that, Moody’s has taken a number of downward ratings actions against producers, because the oversupply eats away at margins and the capacity to pay debt is eroding.—
Kevin Williams,
CNBC,
28 Mar. 2026
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That’s an oversupply at every phase.—
Daren Smith,
IndieWire,
18 Mar. 2026
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In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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Although the central story is intimate in scale, the film’s scope is large and its social purview deep, and this vast amplitude is a function of Ouédraogo’s way of staging action, or, rather, of envisioning it.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
6 Mar. 2026
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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