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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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In 1956, long before those flashy rhinestone jumpsuits, the infamous Jungle Room, and all the Vegas excess, Elvis was just a handsome, super-talented guy playing high schools and military bases along the Gulf coast.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
14 Sep. 2025
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Panday plays a convincingly gruff tortured artist alongside Padda’s struggling ingenue, and most of the screen time is devoted to their pairing instead of introducing tertiary excess.—
Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
13 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
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The addictive opioid drug is 50 times more potent than morphine and can trigger a fatal overdose with as little as 2 milligrams, the equivalent of a few grains of salt.—
Mark Zeigler,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Sep. 2025
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Hoffman died in 2014 of a drug overdose.—
Emily Blackwood,
PEOPLE,
13 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 17 Sep. 2025.
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