surfeit

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

“What happened to the peace dividend?” economist Augusto Lopez-Claros asked last year, referring to the supposed surfeit of funds that was to flow after the end of the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

So by the time a public space opened up in 1977, the staff had a surfeit of wooden soapboxes containing jumbles of animal bones but little else.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 22, 2026

Any study of wars, poverty and other manmade crises shows us that humanity still suffers from a lack of empathy, not a surfeit.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

Civilisation fails, While surfeits Idleness, and Labour pales.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

Others might and would consume themselves in fevers of avarice, and surfeits of luxury,—but for him such temporary pleasures were past.

From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

Meantime he surfeits in prosperity, And thou, in envy of him, gnaw'st thyself: Peace, fool, get hence, and tell thy vexed spirit, Wealth in this age will scarcely look on merit.

From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson

The juice of the arum was considered good for the plague, and Gerarde tells us that Henry VIII. was, "wont to drink the distilled water of broom-flowers against surfeits and diseases thereof arising."

From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer

As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

Theatergoers, surfeited with entertainment options at home, have been less inclined to commit to season subscriptions, placing more pressure on programming to come up with sure-fire hits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

New Yorkers may be too surfeited with magnificent spectacles, after the tall ships and the Bicentennial festivals, to work up much enthusiasm for the convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

The anger will not hold; the puppy is too easily surfeited.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir 37:30 For excess of meats bringeth sickness, and surfeiting will turn into choler.

From Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

Tom’s plan about holding the temptation before a burro instead of surfeiting him with goodies, was evidently beginning to work.

From Polly's Business Venture by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

After surfeiting on romances whose scenes are laid abroad, it is delightful to come across a healthy home product like this.”

From The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It by R. W. Beers