excess
Example Sentences
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The lender is looking to strike a balance between expanding its top and bottom lines while continuing to hand excess capital to shareholders at a time when interest rates have come down.
Archer, however, recovered well to bowl effectively at the death as Sri Lanka pushed for a total in excess of 200.
From BBC
In many cases, nations that are heavily dependent on exports have had no choice but to “eat” the tariffs to avoid even worse losses from their excess capacity.
However, medium-term margin pressure remains, with excess competition raising customer acquisition costs and offsetting gains from scaling up.
This, together with plans to return excess capital to shareholders in 2027, should trigger a positive market reaction, the analysts say.
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