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as in abundance
an amount or supply more than sufficient to meet one's needs
a superabundance of donations flowed in after the family's plight was seen on national TV
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as in surplus
the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed
a superabundance of applicants for a limited number of jobs
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Recent Examples of superabundance
Three grasses—rice, maize, and wheat—account for 90 percent of this superabundance, supplying us with two thirds of food calories.
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Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
This willful overreach is more or less business as usual for Albarn and his old housemate Hewlett, who, by conceiving this cartoon combo of multiracial punks in 1998, advanced a vision of pop hybridity that anticipated our age of cultural superabundance.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for superabundance
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This year, the unusually warm weather in March, plant abundance and a healthy amount of prey were early signals to rattlesnakes to begin their activity.—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
1 Apr. 2026
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In Jewish tradition, the Talmud makes numerous references to pickled vegetables, particularly turnips, which symbolize abundance and endurance.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
31 Mar. 2026
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The film’s surplus of action and chase scenes follows the same rigid formula of swooping camera movements and game power-up deus ex machinas that no sequence ever proves particularly exciting.—
Wilson Chapman,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2026
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The Bryant School is just one surplus building.—
Thomas White,
Kansas City Star,
31 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Revelry Reformed Already in the Middle Ages, there existed conflict between those who partook in carnival’s excesses for a higher, spiritual purpose, and those who enjoyed themselves for enjoyment’s sake.—
Tim Brinkhof,
JSTOR Daily,
1 Apr. 2026
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Pre-portioning baskets from the start, setting a one-treat-per-day rule after Easter morning and donating or freezing the excess are the strategies parents are actually using.—
Allison Palmer,
Kansas City Star,
30 Mar. 2026
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Adept at separating the unseen from the seen, Lemann here chronicles his family’s accumulation of wealth, whatever the moral costs or compromises, and their subsequent acculturation and partial deracination.—
Brenda Wineapple,
The New York Review of Books,
4 Apr. 2026
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As the imperial capital for over 1,000 years, the city was a magnet for wealth and culture, and that rich history remains alive today in traditions like kaiseki cuisine, Kyo-ware ceramics, Yuzen silk dyeing, sake brewing, and classical drama forms like Kabuki and Noh (a type of theatrical dance).—
Jessica Kozuka,
Travel + Leisure,
3 Apr. 2026
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“Superabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superabundance. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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