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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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This may be overkill, but if you have millions of dollars, a “dynasty trust” allows you to control assets over multiple generations.

From MarketWatch Jun. 23, 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

Together, they represent overkill of an enormity that should be considered essentially unfathomable.

From Salon Dec. 7, 2025

The Berkeley geographer Carl Sauer first brought up overkill in the 1930s, he said.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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