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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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“Would I consider it overkill? It’s a crazy game,” said outfielder Corbin Carroll of the Arizona Diamondbacks, the team that swept the Dodgers over the weekend at Dodger Stadium.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 2026

Expensive GPU-filled servers were overkill, and data-center customers mostly bought CPU servers to run websites, databases, applications, and other traditional workloads.

From Barron's May 8, 2026

To see this served up over and over again in a genre that an expanse of queer women enjoy, and spend money on to support, is just overkill.

From Salon Apr. 8, 2026

Still, the assembled armada seems overkill for that goal.

From Slate Feb. 19, 2026

I mean, I knew Westover was a military school and all, but the decorations seemed like overkill.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan




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