inordinate

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“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Depositing an inordinate amount of bins around town is just not the way to encourage people to properly dispose of their organic waste, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025

Early on in the park service, there was an inordinate focus on just the visitor experience.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

With the hit single “California Girls,” Wilson began shifting his approach to the group’s music precipitously, devoting inordinate effort to constructing the song’s introduction.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

One-third of all Linear B tablets from the palace of Knossos are accountants’ records of sheep and wool, while an inordinate proportion of writing at the palace of Pylos consists of records of flax.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond