overkill
Example Sentences
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It feels a bit like overkill if you’re just a little sleepy.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025
It’s not overkill; it’s future-you leaving breadcrumbs for next year’s you.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025
She left partly because she was ordering a lot of tests that seemed like overkill.
From Barron's • Nov. 12, 2025
This may seem like overkill, but the strategy helped Joy and her husband pay off $300,000 in debt within three years and retire by age 40.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025
To Deloria’s way of thinking, not only overkill but the entire Clovis-first theory is a theoretical Rube Goldberg device.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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