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Noun
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The case questions whether a homeowner is owed the fair market value or just the surplus from a tax auction sale.—
Todd Spangler,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025 -
But in baseball, on paper is the only place where a team can consider itself as having a surplus of starters.—
C. Trent Rosecrans,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Apply a thick paste to the stain and wait 10 minutes, then brush off the excess.—
Brandee Gruener,
Southern Living,
5 Oct. 2025
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Lost in the drugs and the excess.—
Tracy Wright , Lauryn Overhultz,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 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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Annual exams may be overkill for some young adults with no signs of vision problems.—
Claire Bugos,
Verywell Health,
25 Sep. 2025
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Face to face, calling the director often seems like overkill.—
Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
21 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 Shamashes have also launched a nonprofit called the Drug Awareness Foundation to encourage schools to keep naloxone on hand to reverse opioid overdoses as well as educate kids about avoiding addiction and teach groups about overdose prevention, among other efforts.—
Jillian Frankel,
PEOPLE,
4 Oct. 2025
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Among the trial's biggest revelations were an alleged overdose that sent Combs to the hospital, accusations of a car-bombing that left Kid Cudi's vehicle in flames, and the details of the major payout Ventura Fine received for her settlement with the music mogul in 2023.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA Today,
2 Oct. 2025
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While the boom in solar has reshaped India’s energy sector, a daytime oversupply — and insufficient batteries to store the excess power — has brought midday prices down to zero, sparking fears of cooling investor interest.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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If farmers are unable to sell all their soybeans, the crop remains stored for the next year, creating an oversupply that drags prices down even further.—
Marissa Meador,
IndyStar,
26 Sep. 2025
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The team first runs dynamic laboratory tests on generic soil samples to build reliable models, applying waves at different strain rates and amplitudes and comparing experimental results with simulations.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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By the time the ripples from GW150914 arrived at Earth, the size of those ripples, which translates into a quantity known as the strain amplitude for a gravitational wave detector, was down to 10-21, or one part in one sextillion.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
17 Sep. 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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