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excessively

adverb as in extravagantly

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The report said the UK has excessively risk-averse policies in place, including "overly conservative" rules on radiation exposure levels for workers.

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A research paper published in July 2025 by the British Psychological Society found that aiming for excessively high goals often leads to long working hours, with only marginal gains in performance.

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He sees speculation as being rife in the artificial-intelligence theme, noting that markets tend to price in big transformations “quickly and excessively,” as it did with the internet in the early 1990s.

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Strategists Dominic Wilson and Vickie Chang recommend investors not leave portfolios “excessively vulnerable” to risks of a crash.

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The program made the point about the racist subject without being excessively didactic; the one projection was a period drawing of a costumed lady in blackface.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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