overkill
Example Sentences
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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
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
The Berkeley geographer Carl Sauer first brought up overkill in the 1930s, he said.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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