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excess
noun as in overabundance of something
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noun as in overindulgence in personal desires
Example Sentences
Beijing is fighting to limit the damage from a pattern of price wars and excess capacity across multiple industries.
Questions around pediatric use, Ms. Donnellan recognizes, are knotty: How do we balance the “significant health damage” caused by excess weight in childhood with the risks of committing children to long-term drug therapy?
A bigger problem lies in a law that has required the Fed to turn over its excess earnings to the U.S.
It shifted from the good-quality excess products of local brands — which were then sold at bargain prices — to imitation or cheap goods often imported from abroad.
The winners were niche budget airlines and the big four — American, Delta, United and Southwest Airlines — which by the 2000s had already cut the excess fat from the passenger experience.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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