excessive
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There should be no single, all-powerful character around which a democracy revolves, so it is considered unseemly to lavish excessive finery on the head of state.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026
However, with his nuanced unraveling of sometimes dauntingly tangled ideas and his always crisp prose he avoids the pitfalls of oversimplification and excessive detail.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
Measures have been imposed by the regulators to try and curb excessive volatility, and they were triggered both on the way down Monday and then again on the way back up again Tuesday.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026
And excessive volatility can scare off some investors.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
He was sound asleep before the spring night was quite dark, but excessive fatigue, like excitement, was a forerunner of the nightmares that had plagued him for the past year.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
Vocabulary lists containing excessive
The Bill of Rights
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