overkill
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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
“Would I consider it overkill? It’s a crazy game,” said outfielder Corbin Carroll of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team that swept the Dodgers over the weekend at Dodger Stadium.
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
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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