inordinately

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Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Iran "is inordinately more complex than Venezuela," with more diffuse centers of power.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

The inordinately high number of fatalities at the Hyundai property is an indication of a lax safety culture, said Ahmed Al-Bayati, founding director of the Construction Safety Research Center at Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025

Some told the BBC that their lives would change inordinately without the platform.

From BBC • Jan. 17, 2025

That just takes 80-something victories, and any owner suggesting it is inordinately challenging to compete for a playoff spot should sell before he embarrasses himself any further.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 17, 2025

Still other hunter-gatherers in contact with farmers did eventually become farmers, but only after what may seem to us like an inordinately long delay.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond