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inordinately

[in-awr-dn-it-lee] / ɪnˈɔr dn ɪt li /










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Mona Yacoubian, director of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Iran "is inordinately more complex than Venezuela," with more diffuse centers of power.

From Barron's ● Jan. 29, 2026

The inordinately high number of fatalities at the Hyundai property is an indication of a lax safety culture, said Ahmed Al-Bayati, founding director of the Construction Safety Research Center at Lawrence Technological University, in Michigan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025

And, of course, Joe Biden is inordinately proud of his own personal Irish heritage - he had ancestors in County Mayo and County Louth.

From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2024

And “Schindler’s List,” it’s worth acknowledging, is inordinately at times almost indecently entertaining.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2023

But when the music stops, she sees her husband’s hands, big- knuckled with long, square-tipped fingers, inordinately large even for his frame.

From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García




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