excess
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The IMF attributes China’s excess saving to a range of structural factors, such as an inadequate safety net and a fiscal system that taxes households too heavily and thus depresses their consumption.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
Next week, US officials will also push to address concerns like excess industrial capacity, promoting stronger economic growth and building reliable supply chains for critical resources like energy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
In a Monday note, Mahaney raised his price target on Meta to $860 from $820 previously, pointing to potential upside from the company selling its excess AI compute capacity to external buyers.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
The oceans take up more than 90% of the excess heat trapped by humanity's greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
She jabs the tiny brush into the coral bottle, wipes the excess under the rim, and expertly strokes it on her big toe, correcting the line with her thumb.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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This is not to excuse excesses, but to point out a mundane matter of physics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 18, 2026
Yet its authority is not self-executing: It relies on lower courts to implement its decisions, extend their logic, and normalize the resulting excesses.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Vacant apartment complexes dubbed "ghost cities" have sparked debate on Chinese social media about the impact of speculative buying and the country's real estate excesses.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
This court defeat is one battle in what has been a long campaign by Prince Harry against what he sees as the unfair excesses of the press.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
In South Carolina the vast, undisciplined army could find another excuse for its excesses beyond the slogan, “This is War, and War is Hell.”
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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