superfluousness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for superfluousness
Noun
  • In 2022, California recorded a nearly $100 billion surplus, saved just $10 billion in its rainy day fund and then spent the rest.
    Mike Gatto, Mercury News, 23 June 2026
  • Those include requiring property owners to file a claim with the government for any surplus proceeds from the tax sale.
    Maureen Groppe, USA Today, 23 June 2026
Noun
  • If feedback arrives, stay curious and trim the excess, since structure turns spark into useful results.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2026
  • Doug Goldstein, the former longtime manager of Guns N’ Roses, who saw the hard rock group through the heights of commercial success and chaotic periods of rock ‘n’ roll excess, has died.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • So there was either a superfluity of honest Dublin women back in the day or a manager who moved around.
    Anne Enright, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • To bear witness to the superfluity of beauty in the world.
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
Noun
  • This is still an expensive, advanced camera that might be overkill and somewhat intimidating for new users.
    Tantse Walter, Space.com, 24 June 2026
  • If the league shifted the primary burden of development to colleges, would those tools amount to overkill?
    Ken Rosenthal, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 June 2026
  • Elsewhere, the autopsy claims that Harris’ campaign didn’t sufficiently incorporate polling data into its messaging, as if her operation suffered from a surfeit of authenticity and spontaneity.
    Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 29 May 2026
Noun
  • Why Basquiat endures Sirmans said there are many reasons why more than three decades after his untimely death from a drug overdose in 1988 at the age of 27, Basquiat remains one of the defining artists of the late 20th century.
    Michelle F. Solomon, Miami Herald, 26 June 2026
  • An internal investigation conducted by the Connecticut Department of Correction concluded the agency bears responsibility for the fatal methadone overdose suffered by Tyler Cole, who died while incarcerated at Garner Correctional Institution.
    Katy Golvala, Hartford Courant, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • Still, tech companies’ race to invest in the expansion of AI infrastructure could ultimately be sowing the seeds of future oversupply, according to Philip Straehl, chief investment officer at Morningstar Wealth.
    ABC News, ABC News, 23 June 2026
  • But that oversupply has evaporated and rapidly turned into a concerning deficit.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • The volume of this object is indeed computing the scattering amplitudes in question.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 25 June 2026
  • Judges look for amplitude, creativity, style, flow of run and difficulty.
    Sean Campbell, Sacbee.com, 25 June 2026
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.

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