surplus
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When the body does not use the glucose it absorbs, the surplus can eventually be converted into fat.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2026
Imports rose 36.0% to $72.78 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $42.50 billion in October.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
The surplus was 35 Bcf the previous week.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026
The country recorded a $116.6 billion current account surplus in the second quarter, surpassing the combined surpluses of manufacturing powerhouses Germany and Japan for the first time since comparable records began in 1996.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
Art had a gun, a pre-Second World War surplus clunker of a thing, which he kept in the barn.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
The country recorded a $116.6 billion current account surplus in the second quarter, surpassing the combined surpluses of manufacturing powerhouses Germany and Japan for the first time since comparable records began in 1996.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2026
But elsewhere, China's soaring surpluses are increasingly stoking tensions with key trading partners, including the European Union and the United States.
From Barron's ● Oct. 18, 2026
It’s worth noting that with the boom in commodity prices in 2026 Brazil is posting massive trade surpluses every month.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
China’s enormous trade surpluses have led to calls for joint action to raise its currency, the yuan, akin to 1985’s Plaza Accord, which boosted an undervalued Japanese yen in order to reduce Japan’s trade surpluses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Yet in order to take advantage of these new opportunities, food surpluses and improved transportation were not enough.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
The city has been prioritizing the use of surplused land for “low-income housing” for several years.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 20, 2023
Next he built a telecom infrastructure company — MK Global — that ”secured the rights to a $1 billion in equipment surplused in the wake of the dot-com crash.”
From Forbes ● Sep. 19, 2011
He couldn't look like that surplused boy, though.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
Consequently the neighborhood was notified that a sacred concert by a "surplused choir" composed of members of the Jenkins household, assisted by a few of their schoolmates, would be given a week from Wednesday night.
From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Belle Kanaris Maniates
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