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as in abundance
an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs
a superabundance of donations flowed in after the family's plight was seen on national TV
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as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
a superabundance of applicants for a limited number of jobs
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Recent Examples of superabundance
This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.
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Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superabundance
Noun
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The main attraction was its abundance of outdoor space, including a front balcony, a rooftop deck and a garden area.—
Carisa Crawford Chappell,
New York Times,
12 Mar. 2026
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Bees, butterflies, moths, and hummingbirds are drawn to the abundance, taking advantage of a resource that is otherwise scarce.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
11 Mar. 2026
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Netflix was sitting on a surplus of As Ever products, including tea and baking mixes, totaling more than $10 million in value (so much so that the company started giving inventory to employees for free, putting the goods on card tables in various office buildings.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
17 Mar. 2026
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Going away for 24 hours or 24 weeks These days the savviest travelers have either a surplus of time (the ultimate luxury) or none at all.—
Matt Ortile,
Condé Nast Traveler,
16 Mar. 2026
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Ellison acquired Weiss’s the Free Press, a centrist digital news site that often targets excesses of the political left and is staunchly pro-Israel.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
13 Mar. 2026
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Stomach-turning excesses by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have turned many Americans’ abstract political preference into something uncomfortably concrete.—
George F. Will,
Washington Post,
13 Mar. 2026
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In the Delta, too, a white minority has held most of the wealth and farmland.—
Boyce Upholt,
New Yorker,
14 Mar. 2026
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But owning his own island also represented Epstein’s entrée into a new tier of elite wealth – a powerful symbol for the former schoolteacher who grew up in a working-class Brooklyn family.—
Isabelle Chapman,
CNN Money,
13 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Superabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superabundance. Accessed 18 Mar. 2026.
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