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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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Calling it a “surgical procedure” is almost overkill.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

To see this served up over and over again in a genre that an expanse of queer women enjoy, and spend money on to support, is just overkill.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

This is the worst but certainly not the only instance of overkill, to put it plainly.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 18, 2025

This may seem like overkill, but the strategy helped Joy and her husband pay off $300,000 in debt within three years and retire by age 40.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 11, 2025

The causes were many, in his telling, but two of them seemed especially pertinent: Ales Hrdlicka and the overkill hypothesis.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann