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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

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

But I would agree with Williams that it was probably overkill.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 16, 2026

The causes were many, in his telling, but two of them seemed especially pertinent: Ales Hrdlicka and the overkill hypothesis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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