as in surplus
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Noun
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Here is the reality of the Hogan surplus and the handoff to the Moore administration: Hogan left Moore $2.5 billion in the rainy day fund.—
Kevin Igoe,
Baltimore Sun,
27 Jan. 2025 -
Los Angeles would have to clear a 40-man spot for Yates, which means the Dodgers could look to move from that relief surplus.—
Fabian Ardaya,
The Athletic,
23 Jan. 2025
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The timing makes sense: After a holiday season filled with cocktail parties and not-so-healthy meals, the idea of cleansing the body of excess seems attractive.—
Vicky Vera,
Glamour,
24 Jan. 2025
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The Magnificent Seven companies reporting in the week ahead could unlock the next leg of the rally, as investors bet that earnings growth fueled by artificial intelligence could power a market some worry has gone to excess.—
Sarah Min,
CNBC,
24 Jan. 2025
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The images aren’t only stripped of superfluities; they’re hermetically sealed off from anything that could impinge from offscreen ...—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
25 Dec. 2024
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Not business as usual The transition team has been grappling with an agency that has a superfluity of field centers—ten spread across the United States, as well as a formal headquarters in Washington, DC—and large, slow-moving programs that cost a lot of money and have been slow to deliver results.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
23 Dec. 2024
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Over 150 companies, including Siemens, Heineken, Renault and Airbus, expressed concerns about potential regulatory overkill.—
Ozan Ozerk,
Forbes,
2 Jan. 2025
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But the real star is Fowler’s shape-shifting filmmaking, which is deft enough to revel in blockbuster overkill and skewer it at the same time.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
18 Dec. 2024
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Toward the island’s center, explore mountainous terrain cloaked in tea plantations and a surfeit of Buddhist and Hindu temples.—
Paul Rubio,
AFAR Media,
23 Dec. 2024
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In the living room, on the lower floor, a contemporary Ashley Hicks chandelier illuminates a circa 1920 Japanese lacquered table and an array of plush seating in varied materials and colors—all surrounded by a surfeit of art and objects made across five centuries and nearly as many continents.—
David Foxley,
Architectural Digest,
13 Dec. 2024
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According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, overdose deaths in the US have steadily and dramatically increased since 1999, going from under 20,000 deaths a year to over 107,000 in 2022.—
Mankaprr Conteh,
Rolling Stone,
23 Jan. 2025
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The latest settlement is meant to address a drug addiction crisis that has led to over 700,000 opioid overdose deaths in the United States over the past two decades.—
Reuters,
CNN,
23 Jan. 2025
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Therefore, oversupply remains as much of an area of concern for SAF sellers as undersupply remains one for the buyers.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes,
19 Jan. 2025
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There are projected to be more than 12 million new university graduates in 2025, a vast oversupply considering the country’s youth unemployment rate of 18.8 percent.—
Peidong Sun,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Dec. 2024
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These are then linked to amplitude of movements such as opening and closing lips, moving eyebrows, or angling the head.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
2 Jan. 2025
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Here, the diversity comes from the mountains, allowing for exploring different altitudes, where soils and thermal amplitudes provide unique and distinctive characteristics.—
John Mariani,
Forbes,
29 Oct. 2024
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