inordinate

Example Sentences

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“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Fish spends an inordinate amount of time thinking about that hallway.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2025

Early on in the park service, there was an inordinate focus on just the visitor experience.

From Slate • Aug. 13, 2025

"The report documents that AB, while at a social event related to CGF business, spent an inordinate amount of time with a volunteer of the opposite sex," the CGF added.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2025

An Osage scholar once observed, “Walking through an Osage cemetery and seeing the gravestones that show the inordinate numbers of young people who died in the period is chilling.”

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann