overkill
Example Sentences
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So, on the day before the All-Star Game, I posed the overkill question to stars from the other teams in the NL West.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 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
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
To see this served up over and over again in a genre that an expanse of queer women enjoy, and spend money on to support, is just overkill.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2026
Three years later, in 1967, the picture was augmented with overkill.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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