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Noun
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Trade deficits and foreign investment surplus show voluntary market transactions from which each party expects to benefit, or the transactions would not occur.—
Phillip Molnar,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2026 -
This spike, a bit higher than Swanson expected, is the result of a global surplus fading and import levels returning to normal.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
6 Feb. 2026
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While plenty of flashy tropical cocktails anchor the menu, Sumrall’s favorite libation leans more into 1920s excess.—
Josh Miller,
Southern Living,
10 Feb. 2026
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Mountainhead is one of HBO’s best original films and comes courtesy of writer-director Jesse Armstrong, one of the premier satirists of our age, having lampooned the world of media excess during Succession’s four seasons.—
Ilana Gordon,
Entertainment Weekly,
10 Feb. 2026
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The 6,500-square-foot three-story contemporary is minimalist in decor but teeming with superfluities, including an elevator, a first-floor gym, a screening room, an infrared sauna and a master-bedroom walk-in closet bigger (and tidier) than my SoHo apartment.—
Tatiana Siegel,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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After which, see its superfluity yet again relative to market entities that have long and capably filled central bank functions of providing near-term liquidity to the solvent, along with regulation to ensure sound operation based on those loans.—
John Tamny,
Forbes.com,
6 July 2025
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If a 17-game schedule is too much from a player safety standpoint, 18 is flat out overkill.—
Jim Alexander,
Oc Register,
6 Feb. 2026
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The defense has argued that police waited too long to read Mangione his Miranda rights and that the police actions amounted to overkill.—
Aaron Katersky,
ABC News,
12 Dec. 2025
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The galaxy sports not only a bright newborn jet but also a surrounding surfeit of older material blasted out by past AGN episodes.—
K. R. Callaway,
Scientific American,
24 Jan. 2026
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Drummer Stuart Springthorpe is the secret co-MVP of Watching, keeping its molasses-slow time and inserting infrequent but always impactful tom-heavy fills into the album’s surfeit of negative space.—
Brad Sanders,
Pitchfork,
17 Jan. 2026
Noun
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Smoking is often a collective activity, the researchers said, while injecting is often done alone or in pairs, meaning more people are present to administer naloxone and reverse an overdose, or to call 911.—
Lev Facher,
STAT,
12 Feb. 2026
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The investigation reportedly revealed that Conley had provided narcotics to a woman shortly before her death from an overdose, according to court records.—
Staff Report,
Hartford Courant,
11 Feb. 2026
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For customers, this oversupply means cheaper butter.—
Sarah Zhang,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2026
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Global chemical producers are reassessing their strategies amid stagnant demand, rising production costs in Europe, changing regulatory requirements and persistent global oversupply.—
Pooja Menon,
Freep.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement And speed builds amplitude—height off a jump—a key for snowboarding gold.—
Sean Gregory,
Time,
4 Feb. 2026
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On the theory side, an obvious solution to the hierarchy problem could drop naturally out of the geometry behind scattering amplitudes.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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