overkill
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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
The overkill hits its nadir when the Bride repeatedly wails the survivors’ hashtag, “Me too!”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
Still, the assembled armada seems overkill for that goal.
From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026
But I would agree with Williams that it was probably overkill.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 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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