overkill
Example Sentences
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Hargrave, who works at a law firm in New Orleans, wanted to tell his driver that seven trees was overkill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
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 Deloria’s way of thinking, not only overkill but the entire Clovis-first theory is a theoretical Rube Goldberg device.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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