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After years of a financial surplus, Maryland now faces an unprecedented fiscal challenge, one that will have far-reaching consequences for state programs, essential services and taxpayers.—
J.B. Jennings,
Baltimore Sun,
11 Feb. 2025 -
Tokyo’s Nikkei 225 was virtually unchanged after Japan’s government reported a record current account surplus last year.—
Stan Choe,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2025
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The excesses of 1980s academia are ripe fodder for de Kretser’s mordant wit, but her aim here is more ambitious — and the results more rewarding.—
Emily Eakin,
New York Times,
18 Feb. 2025
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The track’s video features Rae frolicking in powdered sugar and in another scene, lingering in her closet, surrounded by an excess of clothes and shoes.—
Tomás Mier,
Rolling Stone,
14 Feb. 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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The investors who had pumped trillions of dollars into tech stocks over the last few years worried whether the tens of billions of dollars that tech companies were spending on new data centers suddenly looked like comic overkill.—
Karen Weise,
New York Times,
8 Feb. 2025
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Even the Obama administration had not engaged in this kind of prosecutorial overkill.—
The Editors,
National Review,
28 Jan. 2025
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These new forms of rational approach to the natural world created a surfeit of information often conveyed through equally new modes of visual address.—
Red Cameron,
Artforum,
1 Jan. 2025
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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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Farley died in 1997 from an apparent drug overdose.—
Marina Watts,
People.com,
19 Feb. 2025
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The medicine can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose and is often available at pharmacies without a prescription.—
Moises Velasquez-Manoff,
New York Times,
17 Feb. 2025
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As the current trading year nears its end, crude oil markets are heading to 2025 in a largely bearish mood on familiar concerns of oversupply, lackluster demand from China and a stronger dollar.—
Gaurav Sharma,
Forbes,
22 Dec. 2024
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Since around 2020, Chinese auto brands, especially EV manufacturers, have been expanding internationally in search of more revenue as fierce competition and oversupply at home eat into their market share.—
Orianna Rosa Royle,
Fortune Asia,
25 Nov. 2024
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Using computer simulations of general relativity, the team found that the amplitude of the post-merger gravitational-wave signal diminishes over time.—
Robert Lea,
Space.com,
12 Feb. 2025
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This increases the amplitude of the orbital motions ‒ meaning how fast and far people are walking in circles.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA TODAY,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Superfluousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superfluousness. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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