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Recent Examples of overdose
The film, winner of the Golden Globes Prize for documentary at the Venice Film Festival, tells a story of father and son – of Ross McElwee and his late son Adrian, who died in 2016 of an accidental drug overdose.
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
The agency has faced intense public scrutiny and criticism after the high-profile deaths of children under county supervision, including the fentanyl overdose of infant Phoenix Castro and, most recently, the death of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
Houston’s death in 2012 from a drug overdose hit Davis especially hard.
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Dan Hyman,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
According to the indictment, the teen died from a drug overdose on or about March 14.
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Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
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Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
25 June 2026
The agency has faced intense public scrutiny and criticism after the high-profile deaths of children under county supervision, including the fentanyl overdose of infant Phoenix Castro and, most recently, the death of 2-year-old Jaxon Juarez.
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Luis Melecio-Zambrano,
Mercury News,
23 June 2026
Houston’s death in 2012 from a drug overdose hit Davis especially hard.
—
Dan Hyman,
Rolling Stone,
22 June 2026
According to the indictment, the teen died from a drug overdose on or about March 14.
—
Meredith Deliso,
ABC News,
19 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overdose
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When energy demand is low and renewable energy supply is in surplus, the Nova Spin uses its electric motor to accelerate the steel rotor inside the unit.
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Instead, the Sharks got two defensemen who are not elite and a forward who might just be a surplus to immediate needs.
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Attems Sauvignon Blanc, Venezia Giulia IGT, $20 Attems offers a slightly riper, more generous introduction to Friulian sauvignon blanc, but never veers into tropical excess.
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Working with 5 to 6 pieces at a time, remove fish from batter, allowing excess to drip back into bowl, and add to hot oil, briefly dragging fish along surface of oil to prevent sticking.
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This is still an expensive, advanced camera that might be overkill and somewhat intimidating for new users.
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If the league shifted the primary burden of development to colleges, would those tools amount to overkill?
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In addition to its regular offerings, Club Volo has been an overflow site for World Cup watch parties downtown and has watch parties planned for the July 11 quarterfinals and the July 19 final.
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Weeks after overflows from Atlanta’s sewer tunnels contributed to the deaths of thousands of fish on the Chattahoochee River, the city’s Department of Watershed Management says its investigating another fish kill on a different river.
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That has never been the case for the first two seasons of House of the Dragon, with its surfeit of…everything.
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Elsewhere, the autopsy claims that Harris’ campaign didn’t sufficiently incorporate polling data into its messaging, as if her operation suffered from a surfeit of authenticity and spontaneity.
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The oil market is coming full circle as millions of barrels that were stranded in the Persian Gulf head to global markets, creating a sudden oversupply that has pushed prices to their lowest level since the US-Iran war began.
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Before the war in the Middle East, a global oversupply weighed on demand for Russian crude, while Ukrainian military strikes have been successfully limiting output at Russian refineries for months.
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The volume of this object is indeed computing the scattering amplitudes in question.
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Judges look for amplitude, creativity, style, flow of run and difficulty.
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“Overdose.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overdose. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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