as in excesses
the act of producing more of something than is needed or wanted
The overproduction of oil caused the fuel companies to lower their prices. Heartburn can be caused by the overproduction of stomach acid.
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Noun
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The key is not to abandon your culture’s strengths, but to guard against its excesses.—
Lindsay Phillips,
Forbes.com,
16 Sep. 2025 -
Yet the superb cinematography by Jaime Ackroyd helps to ride over excesses in the direction.—
Stephen Farber,
HollywoodReporter,
15 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Are places with smaller gaps or with retirement income surpluses necessarily better places to retire?—
Roxana Popescu,
Mercury News,
29 Aug. 2025
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Later, those conservative projections produce surpluses that are used to pay down debt and lower taxes.—
Naperville Sun,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Aug. 2025
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With such low abundances of even the lightest heavy elements, there simply isn’t a way to form dust.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
12 Sep. 2025
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The other study – an independent laboratory experiment – demonstrates how molecular hydrogen, a molecule essential for star formation, may have formed earlier and in larger abundances.—
Luke Keller,
Space.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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