overkill
Example Sentences
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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
Calling it a “surgical procedure” is almost overkill.
From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026
For me, it happens often enough that this approach feels less like overkill and more like mercy.
From Salon • Jan. 27, 2026
But I would agree with Williams that it was probably overkill.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026
Three years later, in 1967, the picture was augmented with overkill.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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