overkills

plural of overkill

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Noun
  • In this approach, BESS handles rapid fluctuations within milliseconds, absorbing short-term surpluses or deficits.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 5 Oct. 2025
  • What regulated actual Southern credit markets, when bondpeople were used as collateral for loans, were surpluses from slave labor, not short-term fluctuations in slave prices.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Human waste and trash overflows became so problematic at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California that the parks were forced to close, according to the association.
    Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Post updated to remove comparison to buffer overflows and SQL injections.
    Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The measured abundances of the light elements throughout the Universe verified the predictions of Big Bang nucleosynthesis, while also demonstrating the need for fusion in stars to provide the heavy elements in our cosmos.
    Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The other study – an independent laboratory experiment – demonstrates how molecular hydrogen, a molecule essential for star formation, may have formed earlier and in larger abundances.
    Luke Keller, Space.com, 7 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • To some market watchers, Nvidia’s latest deals feel all-too-similar to the excesses of past technology booms.
    Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2025
  • Best to just give in, dandily living in the game’s excesses; we’re being treated like gods here, left to want for nothing more.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
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“Overkills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overkills. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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