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Abiy has said the dam will improve access to electricity for the almost half the population who had none as recently as 2022, and export the surplus to the region.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
9 Sep. 2025 -
There is even a world in which Winnipeg’s best play is to forget about its surplus of veteran defencemen, giving Salomonsson third-pairing minutes as soon as this season.—
Murat Ates,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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The ruling landed as a symbolic rebuke of Musk’s sway over Tesla, and a warning about the excesses of Silicon Valley’s cult-of-founder ethos.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
5 Sep. 2025
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An excess of dry fuels and vegetation is compounded by fire weather conditions that are becoming more common year-round.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The 6,500-square-foot three-story contemporary is minimalist in decor but teeming with superfluities, including an elevator, a first-floor gym, a screening room, an infrared sauna and a master-bedroom walk-in closet bigger (and tidier) than my SoHo apartment.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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After which, see its superfluity yet again relative to market entities that have long and capably filled central bank functions of providing near-term liquidity to the solvent, along with regulation to ensure sound operation based on those loans.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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And while the design and features are tailored to gamers, the Alienware Aurora also doubles as an overkill workstation, offering unmatched performance for video editing, graphic design, and 3D modeling.—
Sherrie Nachman,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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In what seems like downbeat overkill, his sweet old dog’s cancer has spread, forcing him to have the animal euthanized.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Sep. 2025
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Maybe the nuns could be transformed into spa therapists at a wellness retreat and the toxin explained away as a surfeit of matcha.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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Lali is cheerful and spry, with a surfeit of energy—sprinting for no reason, flourishing her movements, meowing ten times in a row.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
Noun
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At the time, the Los Angeles Police Department stated that Haim, who had battled drug addiction for years, died of an accidental overdose.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The cause of death was an accidental drug overdose.—
Daysia Tolentino,
Entertainment Weekly,
7 Sep. 2025
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Faced with oversupply, QatarGas could decide to hold back some volumes — or push them on to the market at lower prices in a bid to incentivize demand and boost market share.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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At the same time, many airlines are now rethinking their capacity plans as an oversupply of flights has weighed on fares and eaten into their profits this year.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
2 Sep. 2025
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The amplituhedron is an incredibly powerful calculational tool, enabling those who work with them to compute — by hand, mind you — scattering amplitudes for problems that could not have been feasibly calculated even by a computer beforehand.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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The copious observations and reflections that the speaker relates expand the movie—a mere seventy-one minutes long—into a work of novelistic amplitude.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 13 Sep. 2025.
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