overkill
Example Sentences
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The overkill hits its nadir when the Bride repeatedly wails the survivors’ hashtag, “Me too!”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2026
But I would agree with Williams that it was probably overkill.
From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026
It feels a bit like overkill if you’re just a little sleepy.
From Slate • Nov. 26, 2025
It’s not overkill; it’s future-you leaving breadcrumbs for next year’s you.
From Salon • Nov. 25, 2025
Defenders of the overkill hypothesis reply: you would hardly expect to find kill sites if the extermination was completed very quickly and long ago, such as within a few millennia some 40,000 years ago.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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