surfeit

There's not exactly a surfeit of available and convincing candidates and Clarke is a proven operator who has become a serial qualifier for major tournaments.

From BBC ● May 28, 2026

“What happened to the peace dividend?” economist Augusto Lopez-Claros asked last year, referring to the supposed surfeit of funds that was to flow after the end of the Cold War.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026

The few other highlights in the show are overwhelmed by a surfeit of lifeless abstractions, eye-glazing prints and vacuous conceptual works.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026

Any study of wars, poverty and other manmade crises shows us that humanity still suffers from a lack of empathy, not a surfeit.

From Salon ● Dec. 1, 2025

It was the first appearance of Lawrence’s method for building the world’s first great Big Science laboratory: the remorseless exploitation of cheap graduate-student labor, a resource he would soon have in surfeit.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Increasingly in the '80s, Halloween has become an escapist extravaganza for adults, a trickless treat that more closely resembles Mardi Gras than the candy-and-apple surfeits of yesteryear.

From Time Magazine Archive

At such a time, the little books of Marvell must have been considered as relishing morsels after such indigestible surfeits.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Civilisation fails, While surfeits Idleness, and Labour pales.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 98, March 1, 1890 by Various

More fevers and surfeits are got by people's drinking when they are hot, than by any one thing I know.

From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

As a theater critic surfeited with plays, radio dramas worked best for me as an unplanned diversion in my car.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2025

You’d think those of us who are keeping tabs might be surfeited by now, but a true theater lover can never have too much Sondheim.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2023

At this point, I'm so surfeited on natural spectacles, it's faintly disappointing not to see a troupe of all these things executing Busby Berkeley maneuvers for my personal delectation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 14, 2013

The slogan was ready-made this year for Iowa and Illinois, surfeited with corn by farmers who "farm the Government."

From Time Magazine Archive

I am sure it is surfeited with babies and is now coming after adults.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston

What the Valentine's cards forget is that the lovesick duke who speaks the words wants to overeat so that "surfeiting/ The appetite may sicken, and so die."

From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013

They were easier to swallow because they lacked liver's surfeiting taste, and a dessertspoonful in water or tomato juice once a day was sufficient for health.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was nearly noon when the through herd was reached, grazed and watered to surfeiting, and a single glance satisfied Joel Wells that the cattle fully met every requirement.

From Wells Brothers The Young Cattle Kings by Andy Adams

The cod increases its species most prodigiously, surfeiting itself upon hake, until the world is again menaced.

From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan

Doctor Todd tried to effect a compromise by accepting two hundred thousand dollars outright, but the philanthropist did not believe in making beggars of institutions by surfeiting them with charity.

From David Malcolm by Nelson Lloyd