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Recent Examples of overdose
Sangha is the third person out of five who pleaded guilty to be sentenced in connection to the actor's death from a drug overdose in October 2023, avoiding a trial that had been planned for September.
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Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The 42-year-old became the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the overdose of the 54-year-old actor.
—Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
The seven-time Grammy winner died of an accidental overdose at his home, Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
Rue often references Fez, the laidback drug dealer played by Angus Cloud, who died from an overdose in his hometown of Oakland in 2023.
—Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
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Lori A Bashian, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2026
The 42-year-old became the third defendant sentenced of the five people who have pleaded guilty in connection with the overdose of the 54-year-old actor.
—Andrew Dalton, Chicago Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
The seven-time Grammy winner died of an accidental overdose at his home, Paisley Park in Chanhassen, Minn.
—Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 8 Apr. 2026
Rue often references Fez, the laidback drug dealer played by Angus Cloud, who died from an overdose in his hometown of Oakland in 2023.
—Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 8 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
Noun
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Unable to return the surplus, the store gave every box away for free.—
Samantha Agate,
Kansas City Star,
6 Apr. 2026
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Thanks to better weather, cocoa is on track to be in surplus over the course of 2026 for a second year running.—
Prashant Rao,
semafor.com,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Flying private has long been synonymous with excess.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
10 Apr. 2026
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And yet, in placing new context and bodies inside the suit of ’80s excess, The Jellicle Ball reinvents it.—
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2026
Noun
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While horror remains popular with audiences and relatively cheap to produce, the genre may be approaching overkill.—
Jake Coyle,
Chicago Tribune,
30 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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But then the Biden administration’s open borders policy had the government throwing tax dollars at hotels and motels all across the country just to house the overflow.—
Susan Shelley,
Oc Register,
5 Apr. 2026
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Thrift + Store at 1405 Jupiter Road Suite, was temporarily closed and the food establishment permit was suspended due to sewage overflow.—
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
5 Apr. 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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But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
3 Apr. 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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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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