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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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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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