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
This may be overkill, but if you have millions of dollars, a “dynasty trust” allows you to control assets over multiple generations.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026
Bill Plaschke’s and many Angel fans’ desire for Arte Moreno to sell his ownership of the Angels is an overkill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 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
Recounted in numberless articles and books, the Maya collapse has become an ecological parable for green activists; along with Pleistocene overkill, it is a favorite cautionary tale about surpassing the limits of Nature.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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