overkill
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Hargrave, who works at a law firm in New Orleans, wanted to tell his driver that seven trees was overkill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Calling it a “surgical procedure” is almost overkill.
From Slate ● Apr. 18, 2026
The overkill hits its nadir when the Bride repeatedly wails the survivors’ hashtag, “Me too!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 4, 2026
Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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