excessively

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"Bones are overly smooth, spines unnaturally straight, lungs overly symmetrical, blood vessel patterns excessively uniform, and fractures appear unusually clean and consistent, often limited to one side of the bone."

From Science Daily • Mar. 26, 2026

“But broad-based and open-ended measures may add excessively to demand and strengthen the pass-through.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

Kaley has been diagnosed with body dysmorphia, a condition where people worry excessively about their physical appearance.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 2026

Taxi drivers in Greece on Wednesday kicked off a two-day nationwide strike over new rules which they say excessively favour private vehicles for hire.

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

But he had no interest in measurement or experiment; he thought Copernicus was excessively preoccupied with mathematical problems.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton