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overkill

[oh-ver-kil] / ˈoʊ vərˌkɪl /






















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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

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

The overkill hits its nadir when the Bride repeatedly wails the survivors’ hashtag, “Me too!”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026

Three years later, in 1967, the picture was augmented with overkill.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann




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