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

“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

The few other highlights in the show are overwhelmed by a surfeit of lifeless abstractions, eye-glazing prints and vacuous conceptual works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Any study of wars, poverty and other manmade crises shows us that humanity still suffers from a lack of empathy, not a surfeit.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025

Nor was McCandless endowed with a surfeit of common sense.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

More fevers and surfeits are got by people's drinking when they are hot, than by any one thing I know.

From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Meantime he surfeits in prosperity, And thou, in envy of him, gnaw'st thyself: Peace, fool, get hence, and tell thy vexed spirit, Wealth in this age will scarcely look on merit.

From Every Man out of His Humour by Ben Jonson

Their rest is not disturbed by the fear of thieves and robbers, nor is it interrupted by surfeits of intemperance.

From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 04 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift

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

You’d think those of us who are keeping tabs might be surfeited by now, but a true theater lover can never have too much Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 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

Meanwhile, the U.S., surfeited with food, has put 22.5 million acres of once productive land into its soil bank.

From Time Magazine Archive

That a greater fool than Jane Eyre had never breathed the breath of life; that a more fantastic idiot had never surfeited herself on sweet lies, and swallowed poison as if it were nectar.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

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

Soon the smoke ascended among the trees, impregnated with a savory incense, not heavy, dull, and surfeiting, like the steam of cookery within doors, but sprightly and piquant.

From The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.——

From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by J P Kemble

Then suddenly, as if fleeing from her own fear, she looked up again, surfeiting her senses with the crowds, the lights, the smoke and scent and crashing music.

From Max by Katherine Cecil Thurston