excessive
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There is no point at which the dragging of Schmitt for this performance would turn excessive.
From Slate ● Oct. 3, 2026
Kevin Buzzard, a flamboyant British number theorist, believes that Lean will cleanse mathematics of its excessive sloppiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
City officials said they didn’t want LA28 to be stuck with insurance so expensive that it would do excessive damage to the event’s bottom line.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The researchers achieved this by carefully controlling the pH gradient so the chemical changes were large enough to reshape the cornea without causing excessive damage.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 29, 2026
Sometimes on the weekends there would be what might be called excessive traffic, but I confined my driving to the weekdays and it did not get thick until I was close to Southern California.
From This Side of Wild by Gary Paulsen
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