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surfeit
noun as in excess
Example Sentences
The surfeit of description can scarcely conceal the deficit of insight.
Once markets adjusted to the shock, U.S. gas inventories flipped into a surfeit that depressed prices.
Colleges are graduating a surfeit of young people who lack hard or even soft skills.
The Victorians worried about a “world denuded of larger significance,” but we suffer from both material surfeit and spiritual abundance, and are captive to a surplus of competing and increasingly angry gods.
Crude prices have fallen from $75 a barrel a year ago, and a projected surfeit next year could send them lower.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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