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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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Lead director Tim Van Patten avoids cinematic overkill, framing the action in a natural, not a cinematic space.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026

Come the next crisis, such a large oil stockpile might even look like overkill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 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

Still, the assembled armada seems overkill for that goal.

From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2026

It's overkill, but ain't no sense in doing something if you ain't going to go for broke.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland


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