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Noun
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Stack, an avid fisherman, worked at an U.S. Army surplus store before opening his own business with $300 from his grandmother, the website said.—
Marcus D. Smith,
Sacramento Bee,
31 Jan. 2025 -
In China’s rapidly modernizing metropolis of Chongqing, where traditional matchmaking parks coexist with towering skyscrapers, dating coach Hao is on a mission to help the country’s surplus of single men find love.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
29 Jan. 2025
Noun
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The excesses of 1980s academia are ripe fodder for de Kretser’s mordant wit, but her aim here is more ambitious — and the results more rewarding.—
Emily Eakin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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The track’s video features Rae frolicking in powdered sugar and in another scene, lingering in her closet, surrounded by an excess of clothes and shoes.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 2025
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The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Not business as usual The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Even the Obama administration had not engaged in this kind of prosecutorial overkill.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Jan. 2025
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Over 150 companies, including Siemens, Heineken, Renault and Airbus, expressed concerns about potential regulatory overkill.—
Ozan Ozerk,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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These new forms of rational approach to the natural world created a surfeit of information often conveyed through equally new modes of visual address.—
Red Cameron,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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Toward the island’s center, explore mountainous terrain cloaked in tea plantations and a surfeit of Buddhist and Hindu temples.—
Paul Rubio,
AFAR Media,
23 Dec. 2024
Noun
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But overdose deaths started a rapid decline at the start of last year.—
Deidre McPhillips,
CNN,
8 Feb. 2025
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Publicly known for clean living, Prince died of an accidental fentanyl overdose amid a cloud of mystery.—
Karu F. Daniels,
New York Daily News,
8 Feb. 2025
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Since around 2020, Chinese auto brands, especially EV manufacturers, have been expanding internationally in search of more revenue as fierce competition and oversupply at home eat into their market share.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune Asia,
25 Nov. 2024
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Therefore, oversupply remains as much of an area of concern for SAF sellers as undersupply remains one for the buyers.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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Using computer simulations of general relativity, the team found that the amplitude of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal diminishes over time.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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This increases the amplitude of the orbital motions ‒ meaning how fast and far people are walking in circles.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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