excess
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In these devices, electrons are pushed into higher energy states before returning to lower ones and releasing their excess energy.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
At the same time, U.S. companies exported about 1.7 million barrels a day of excess diesel that stateside truckers, farmers and other commercial shippers didn’t consume.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
But these safeguards are easily bypassed by "tuning kits" or software hacks that make them capable of running much faster, sometimes in excess of 40mph.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026
One option would be not to rebuild some of these schools at all — given the district’s excess capacity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
The excess water would later be drained off.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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Where Parker was the jazz-saxophone genius who succumbed to his excesses, Coltrane transcended his.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The UK media has long been criticised for being too intrusive, and moves have been made to curtail some of its worse excesses, while balancing the need for press freedoms.
From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026
The label’s growing popularity presents a certain irony for a project founded partly as a critique of fashion’s excesses: Matières Fécales is now luxury fashion itself.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 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
I trim the grandiloquent excesses on this and the other answer before e-mailing them to Amu.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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