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Noun
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Minnesota is currently working with a small $3 billion surplus.—
Mary Murphy,
Twin Cities,
9 June 2026 -
When a seller prices tickets below what the market would bear, the surplus doesn’t disappear, but rather, moves into queues, bots, and resale platforms.—
Catherina Gioino,
Fortune,
9 June 2026
Noun
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Swimsuits for women my size are typically cumbersome, made with a confusing excess of fabric, and frumpy.—
Tamim Alnuweiri,
InStyle,
29 May 2026
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The areas in red are indicative of temperatures well in excess of 30 degrees Celsius (86 degrees Fahrenheit) and include major European cities such as Madrid and Paris.—
Adam Kovac,
Scientific American,
29 May 2026
Noun
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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
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To bear witness to the superfluity of beauty in the world.—
Kevin West,
Travel + Leisure,
8 May 2026
Noun
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But in Steyer’s case, his recent unrelenting attack ads against surging Becerra — now his chief campaign rival — are disturbing and seem like overkill.—
George Skelton,
Mercury News,
1 June 2026
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Infectious disease experts said this plan was overkill because health departments already keep tabs on patients with infectious diseases such as tuberculosis using less onerous methods like regular phone calls.—
Brenda Goodman,
CNN Money,
29 May 2026
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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
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Besides using up your surfeit of squash, this recipe will even satisfy the kids.—
Kaitlyn Yarborough,
Southern Living,
23 May 2026
Noun
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For many actresses, channeling Monroe, who died 50 years ago at 36 of an overdose of barbiturates, is virtually a rite of passage.—
Rebecca Mead,
Allure,
29 May 2026
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The other, Sepulveda, 49, of Hammond, died of an accidental fentanyl overdose the next day.—
Meredith Colias-Pete,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2026
Noun
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That said, even if the oil crunch crisis is solved, there may be a shift to a huge oil oversupply due to the unwinding done by OPEC, given that the UAE has left the cartel, said Galimberti.—
Justina Lee,
CNBC,
9 June 2026
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That trend could leave Miami with an oversupply of multifamily housing, which could drive rents down further.—
Catherine Odom,
Miami Herald,
29 May 2026
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Imagined through a multigenerational lens, the collection offers an amplitude of points of view, inspirations and ideas.—
Stephen Garner,
Footwear News,
3 June 2026
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Brown collected speech examples of 49 Canadians from online sources and analyzed the samples using the telltale acoustic markers of vocal fry, such as low and/or irregular pitch, spectral tilt (differences in amplitude between the first and second harmonics), and harmonics-to-noise ratios.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
14 May 2026
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 11 Jun. 2026.
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