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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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Come the next crisis, such a large oil stockpile might even look like overkill.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

This may be overkill, but if you have millions of dollars, a “dynasty trust” allows you to control assets over multiple generations.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 23, 2026

Bill Plaschke’s and many Angel fans’ desire for Arte Moreno to sell his ownership of the Angels is an overkill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 6, 2026

Expensive GPU-filled servers were overkill, and data-center customers mostly bought CPU servers to run websites, databases, applications, and other traditional workloads.

From Barron's ● May 8, 2026

The tanks are overkill for just the five of us.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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