excess

Chinese car companies have avoided expanding to the U.S. by and large because of the software ban and tariffs in excess of 100% on imported EVs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

Saltwater crocodiles - known locally as Salties - live in both freshwater and saltwater and can grow to be in excess of six metres long.

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

With the hammer head he knocked off the excess shell, and with the blade at the other end he struck off the small oysters.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

That is a good reason to avoid unnecessary wars; it is also a reason to avoid excesses of either gloom or joy as the fortunes of war shift and turn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 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

Abstinence campaigns have gathered ground in many countries in recent years, notably the trend to pursue a "Dry January" after Christmas and New Year's Eve excesses.

From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 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

Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy