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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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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

Salary cap or not, would it be overkill if the Dodgers picked up Skubal?

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

That was probably overkill, but apparently I had sold it.

From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken




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