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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

“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

Sometimes, the mechanisms used for overkill are immunologic, but often, as in the limulus model, they are more primitive kinds of memory.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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