excess
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Frequent sugar consumption is harmful for dental health and is also detrimental to cardiometabolic health when consumed in excess.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 15, 2026
"A mineral which, taken in excess, can lead to bone marrow and kidney problems," she reads.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
Warsh has to tame excess inflation — ruling out near-term rate reductions — and ideally avoid steep rate increases that make credit even more costly to obtain.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 13, 2026
Times restaurant critic Bill Addison, in his review of the restaurant, said was “phenomenal, a statement piece of excess and engineering ... easily enough to feed two people.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Unable to reach him by phone and confined at home because Ernest had the car, she let her imagination magnify “all the horror stories about what excess radiation might do to the men.”
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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
In many ways, China’s vernacular taste in automotive design codified the excesses of the West and doubled down upon them, propelled by the status-signaling anxieties of rising Chinese affluence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
They appear to eschew the excesses of footballers' lives, explaining a typical night in during an interview with Norwegian channel NRK.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
In recent years, prices of gold, silver and bitcoin had climbed as a kind of protest vote against fiscal excesses and the idea that central banks had become more tolerant of inflation.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
He was forced to hire a pair of bodyguards to protea him from his own excesses.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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