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Where the latter is explosive and superabundant, the former is tender and contained — barely over an hour in length, just four bodies in street clothes and a few simple items on a small, largely unadorned stage.—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2024 And with light sweet crude becoming superabundant on the U.S. Gulf Coast, exports of oil are bound to become a hot topic a year from now.—Amy Myers Jaffe, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2013 When flying out of Singapore Changi Airport, its adjoining Jewel Changi Airport complex with its impressive HSBC Rain Vortex — the world’s tallest indoor waterfall — and family-friendly activities serves as a final reminder of Singapore’s thriving and superabundant green scene.—Kathryn Romeyn, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 July 2023 Krill can be superabundant, but only within certain isolated regions of the world ocean, such as upwelling zones and polar oceans.—Eric M. Keen, Scientific American, 31 July 2020 Unlike the superabundant green iguana, which is native to Central and South America and widely introduced elsewhere, there are exceedingly few Anegada rock iguanas.—Murray Carpenter, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2022
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Late Latin superabundant-, superabundans, from present participle of superabundare
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