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Worse, most individuals who want to set prices have biases that will guarantee resulting errors, creating shortages (think apartments in New York City) or surpluses (think U.S. government warehouses of cheese in the 1980s).—
Michael Lynch,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025 -
Because of statutory and constitutional requirements, those totals put Beacon Hill in a position to stash more money into reserves, and set up another sizable surtax surplus that lawmakers will get to dole out to education and transportation investments.—
State House News Service,
Boston Herald,
9 Aug. 2025
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Ultimately, the Rolls-Royce Corniche had become a global symbol of sumptuous indulgence and unbridled excess; the automotive equivalent of lighting a Cuban cigar with a hundred-dollar bill.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
15 Aug. 2025
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Once seen as an impressive point of national pride, the excess of these designs and the earlier Rococo style became a symbol of a corrupt ruling class that served solely its own interests.—
Elizabeth Fazzare,
Architectural Digest,
14 Aug. 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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Mark Strong’s menacing villain is a bit of a drip, and the finale devolves into CG overkill.—
Tim Grierson,
Vulture,
11 July 2025
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Mixing Small-Batch Recipes Sometimes a whisk isn’t quite enough, but hauling out a bulky mixer and all its attachments feels like overkill.—
Nicole Letts,
Southern Living,
23 July 2025
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The corpus of superhero fiction has a surfeit of nasties, dozens upon dozens of antagonists for each of the already multitudinous protagonists.—
Abraham Josephine Riesman,
Vulture,
28 July 2025
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The five-track set contains contributions from behind-the-scenes stateside pop fixtures like Andrew Watt and Justin Tranter, and comes with a surfeit of physical options for purchase — including four vinyl variants and nine CD variants.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
2 July 2025
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But a week after state officials announced the partnership, there are many questions about the undertaking, which could roughly double the population of a prison long plagued with understaffing issues, problems with violence and drug overdoses among inmates.—
Kristine Phillips,
IndyStar,
12 Aug. 2025
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Five people are now facing charges related to the accidental drug overdose and his untimely death.—
Julia Moore,
People.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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This mixture of oversupply, weakening demand, and negative sentiment in the futures market created a perfect storm, leading to lower prices and dragging EQT stock down alongside them.—
Trefis Team,
Forbes.com,
25 July 2025
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Even some trans-Atlantic trips showed signs of oversupply in the market as feverous demand for European trips post-pandemic settles down and inbound tourism to the U.S. drops.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
18 July 2025
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In turn, the August 2 event created seismic waves with about three times the amplitude of a 2.5 magnitude event that represents the high end of typical activity in the region.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
3 Aug. 2025
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These disturbances in the water develop at depth and typically have a vertical amplitude on the order of feet—but are normally barely visible on the lake's surface.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 July 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 24 Aug. 2025.
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