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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

Still, the assembled armada seems overkill for that goal.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Jan. 16, 2026

The comedic overkill of the insult is on purpose.

From Los Angeles Times • 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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