surfeit

Example Sentences

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But this spring holds a surfeit of Scripture-inspired scripted alternatives.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 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

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

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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 31, 2025

I lunch at Wendy’s, where $4.99 gets you unlimited refills at the Mexican part of the Super-bar, a comforting surfeit of refried beans and cheese sauce.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich