excessively

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The Midwest and Eastern U.S. are expecting an excessively humid week, with daytime temperatures soaring to the 90s and 100s and nighttime temperatures that only drop into the 70s, according to the National Weather Service.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 30, 2026

Finns may not be known for demonstrative cheerfulness, nor necessarily for being makers of excessively happy music.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

The Journal uncovered a questionable autism-therapy provider based in Brooklyn called the Perfect Child that sent insurers and patients excessively high bills, sometimes extracting huge payments.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 3, 2026

In generalized anxiety disorder, for example, people may worry excessively about ordinary events and struggle to control nervousness or fear.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

Some people personalize events excessively, resisting an external perspective, and since numbers and an impersonal view of the world are intimately related, this resistance contributes to an almost willful innumeracy.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos