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

But this spring holds a surfeit of Scripture-inspired scripted alternatives.

From Salon ● Mar. 29, 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

It would have been easy to collect a surfeit of recent creations that speak to tech’s promises and perils.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026

In the advertising business, this surfeit of information is called the “clutter” problem, and clutter has made it harder and harder to get any one message to stick.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell

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

I see that plenty surfeits oft, And hasty climbers soonest fall; I see that such as are aloft, Mishap doth threaten most of all.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

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 Corelli, Marie

A man never surfeits of too much honesty.

From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas

Says Caesar, If Antony followed his debaucheries at a time of leisure, I should leave him to be punished by their natural consequences, by surfeits and dry bones.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

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

Yet even the meanness of living standards in such a system may have a certain attraction for millions of people outside those countries who are repelled or surfeited by commercial values.

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

The air was surfeiting with the steam of food.

From Montlivet by Smith, Alice Prescott

The idleness which rusts quiet minds effervesces in fiery spirits pent up together; and the loiterers in the environs of a court, surfeiting with peace, were quick at quarrel.

From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac

The cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster