superfluousness

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Noun
  • Newsom then proposes spending that $10 billion in the next year’s budget, according to the LAO report — in essence, making a quick deposit to carry some of this year’s surplus over for next year’s budget.
    Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
  • By linking their grids, member states can share domestic surpluses in real time.
    Ken Silverstein, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
Noun
  • Equity Residential owns and manages in excess of 300 rental properties consisting of more than 85,000 apartment units, its website shows.
    Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, 22 May 2026
  • Susquehanna was awarded roughly half the possible score in this category, while any college with net tuition revenue per student in excess of $30,000 received full credit.
    Matt Schifrin, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • To bear witness to the superfluity of beauty in the world.
    Kevin West, Travel + Leisure, 8 May 2026
  • If both parties orgasmed, all the better as this would help in the excretion of harmful superfluities.
    The Week UK, TheWeek, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Global shutter and 120fps capture are overkill for the vast majority of photographers.
    Jim Fisher, PC Magazine, 13 May 2026
  • When a super-stiff shirt collar feels like overkill, go for a lighter application of starch to maintain the garment's structure, while opting for a slightly more relaxed feel.
    Louise Parks, Martha Stewart, 10 May 2026
Noun
  • While there’s not exactly a surfeit of character development, the screenplay co-written by Corrigan and Hope Elliott Kemp provides just enough motivation to keep us interested in more than just the caper.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.
    Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Raville believes the law has made people using drugs together less likely to call for help if someone has an overdose.
    Meg Wingerter, Denver Post, 20 May 2026
  • And while drug overdoses dramatically increased over the last two decades, with the number of deaths increasing approximately 520% from 1999 to 2023, drug overdose deaths are beginning to decline — by nearly 3% from 2022 to 2023, according to the latest CDC data.
    Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • During the boom, many developers amassed huge debts, and the oversupply of housing led to whole ghost districts and empty projects in many places.
    Chris Lau, CNN Money, 18 May 2026
  • That has resulted in a temporary oversupply of apartments.
    Aldo Svaldi, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
Noun
  • Keith leads us toward this richer amplitude.
    Glenn Adamson, Artforum, 2 May 2026
  • But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 24 May. 2026.

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