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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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So, on the day before the All-Star Game, I posed the overkill question to stars from the other teams in the NL West.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 13, 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

Calling it a “surgical procedure” is almost overkill.

From Slate Apr. 18, 2026

But I would agree with Williams that it was probably overkill.

From MarketWatch Jan. 16, 2026

The tanks are overkill for just the five of us.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera




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