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Noun
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Snowfall Breakdown Precipitation data highlights a surplus of snow, regardless of how the season is measured.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
27 Jan. 2026 -
Viewing it releases a surplus of dopamine in the brain that leads your body to crave even more dopamine, creating a cycle of addiction.—
Beth Collums,
AJC.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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What happens, though, when those excesses transcend the merely stupid, the merely unjust, to become existential?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
29 Jan. 2026
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Liberal and conservative polls show the president’s support is cratering across all groups because of ICE’s excesses but especially with independents and Latinos, two constituencies crucial to his 2024 triumph and the future of MAGA.—
Gustavo Arellano,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Jan. 2026
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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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The defense has argued that police waited too long to read Mangione his Miranda rights and that the police actions amounted to overkill.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
12 Dec. 2025
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Proving that there’s nothing MAGA love like overkill, there’s also whole lot of George Washington (including a historically daft 2010 Dodge Challenger ad) in the almost hangover inducing 40-second spot.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
9 Nov. 2025
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The galaxy sports not only a bright newborn jet but also a surrounding surfeit of older material blasted out by past AGN episodes.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
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Drummer Stuart Springthorpe is the secret co-MVP of Watching, keeping its molasses-slow time and inserting infrequent but always impactful tom-heavy fills into the album’s surfeit of negative space.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2026
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Others included peace missions special envoy Steve Witkoff, whose son Andrew died in 2011 from an opioid overdose.—
Naomi Lim,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Jan. 2026
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Slovak, who died at age 26 of a drug overdose, was an original member of the Peppers, but did not appear on the band’s 1984 debut album, the only one to feature Jack Sherman on guitar.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
30 Jan. 2026
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Stephen Nellis | Reuters Memory prices have historically traded in cycles of short supply or oversupply, which have dictated the price of the components.—
Arjun Kharpal,
CNBC,
26 Jan. 2026
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There is an undeniable oversupply of negative, fear-inducing and even sensationalized content.—
Heather V. MacArthur,
Forbes.com,
18 Jan. 2026
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On the theory side, an obvious solution to the hierarchy problem could drop naturally out of the geometry behind scattering amplitudes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Jan. 2026
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Instead of standard binary coding information utilizing electronic circuits using signals of ones and zeros, the researchers use the amplitude and phase of light waves to store, process, and communicate data.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
10 Dec. 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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