overkill
Example Sentences
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Come the next crisis, such a large oil stockpile might even look like overkill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
So, on the day before the All-Star Game, I posed the overkill question to stars from the other teams in the NL West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Expensive GPU-filled servers were overkill, and data-center customers mostly bought CPU servers to run websites, databases, applications, and other traditional workloads.
From Barron's ● May 8, 2026
Calling it a “surgical procedure” is almost overkill.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
The Berkeley geographer Carl Sauer first brought up overkill in the 1930s, he said.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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