excess
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If valence quarks alone carried the baryon number, explaining the excess away from the beamline would require all three valence quarks from one colliding proton to stop near the center of the detector.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 16, 2026
But he warned those running them not to post "excess information ... that the enemy can use against us."
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
There are hazards everywhere along a road course in cycling and it is impossible to control exactly what lies around any corner across a stage which could be in excess of 100 miles.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Disney’s CEO Michael Eisner cleverly used that excess cash to invest ever-greater amounts in Disney’s theme parks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
“Thank you. But then we’ll have to pay for excess baggage.”
From "Amina's Song" by Hena Khan
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The label’s growing popularity presents a certain irony for a project founded partly as a critique of fashion’s excesses: Matières Fécales is now luxury fashion itself.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
Yet its authority is not self-executing: It relies on lower courts to implement its decisions, extend their logic, and normalize the resulting excesses.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Greenspan argued that central bank credit expansion and artificially low interest rates fueled speculative excesses that inevitably ended in the Great Depression.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026
This court defeat is one battle in what has been a long campaign by Prince Harry against what he sees as the unfair excesses of the press.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
The subject was then considered by most professional astronomers to be at least slightly disreputable, tainted with Lowellian excesses.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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The Dawes Act
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