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Over a decade later, the spirit of that push has become a core policy for Johnson, who persuaded aldermen to support a record $1 billion TIF surplus that yielded $572 million for Chicago Public Schools and $233 million for the city.—
Jake Sheridan,
Chicago Tribune,
28 Apr. 2026 -
Those teams have areas of surplus and change-of-scenery candidates.—
Tim Britton,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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Other oil companies paid an excess of $3 million in addition to the crossing fee to accelerate their passage in the face of soaring oil prices.—
Alma Solis,
Fortune,
24 Apr. 2026
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This spike is a Herbig–Haro object (HH 399, specifically) — a jet of material launched by a growing protostar accreting too much matter and ejecting the excess along its rotational axis.—
Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
24 Apr. 2026
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If both parties orgasmed, all the better as this would help in the excretion of harmful superfluities.—
The Week UK,
TheWeek,
23 Apr. 2026
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The Cullinan, which went on sale in 2018 and is now in its second generation, oozes superfluity, and that's totally fine.—
Morgan Korn,
ABC News,
22 Feb. 2026
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Next week's Truist Championship will be the sixth signature event of the year, and with the PGA Championship taking place the following week, the overkill of the Tour's biggest events is very real.—
Mark Harris OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
26 Apr. 2026
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Burning an early- to mid-round pick on a QB this year seems like overkill for the 49ers, who went 5-3 last season with Jones starting for an injured Purdy.—
Graham Womack,
Sacbee.com,
23 Apr. 2026
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Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.—
Howard Halle,
ARTnews.com,
10 Apr. 2026
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The President and the explorer share a few traits, including a surfeit of self confidence.—
Jia Tolentino,
New Yorker,
24 Mar. 2026
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Three years later, the pro wrestler (whose real name is Terry Bollea) received news that his estranged older brother Alan had died from an overdose.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
23 Apr. 2026
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Last week, the 20-year-old Peters was reportedly hospitalized in Miami after he is believed to have suffered an overdose during a livestream.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
23 Apr. 2026
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When farmers complained about low prices, FDR blamed an oversupply of food.—
John Stossel,
Oc Register,
22 Apr. 2026
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Denver has an oversupply of apartments right now, thanks to a flurry of developers breaking ground when interest rates were low amid the pandemic.—
Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
18 Apr. 2026
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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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In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
23 Mar. 2026
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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