excess
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That excess cholesterol interfered with the astrocytes' lysosomal waste-disposal system.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026
More recent carve-outs in the law also allow leaders to direct excess funds to infrastructure and local government.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cutler, now with the Asia Society Policy Institute, expects some countries will "mince no words" as they feel they have been unfairly targeted on excess capacity.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Battery storage also allows utilities to rely more on renewable energy sources by making them more efficient: It retains excess energy from wind and solar power that can be used when those sources aren’t producing.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
If some other drug relieves the symptoms of schizophrenia, then an excess of it must cause schizophrenia.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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Now they also realize they “don’t want these excesses, don’t want the federal government to come in and round up everyone, especially people that don’t have a criminal past.”
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
Very occasionally, one will say something anodyne—border security is important, police are necessary—that implicitly criticizes the party’s wildest excesses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The political system has modified what it concluded were excesses, and the Bill of Rights still limits the government.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
And she had no idea that her preferences prodded him to such excesses.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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The Dawes Act
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