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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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Come the next crisis, such a large oil stockpile might even look like overkill.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 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

Still, the assembled armada seems overkill for that goal.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Jan. 16, 2026

Sometimes, the mechanisms used for overkill are immunologic, but often, as in the limulus model, they are more primitive kinds of memory.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas




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