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Recent Examples of overdose Despite his overdose and hospitalization, Clavicular attended a club opening Wednesday night. —
Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Two months after a San Francisco toddler’s fatal fentanyl overdose, the child’s parents have been charged with murder. —Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026 Few details have been released, but Miami Fire told CBS News Miami that crews were called to the corner of 9th Street and South Miami Avenue in Brickell after getting reports of a possible overdose of a 20-year-old man. —Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026 Few details have been released, but Miami Fire Rescie told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami that crews were called to the corner of Ninth Street and South Miami Avenue in Brickell after getting reports of a possible overdose of a 20-year-old man. —Cbs News Miami, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overdose
Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Apr. 2026 Two months after a San Francisco toddler’s fatal fentanyl overdose, the child’s parents have been charged with murder. —Bay Area News Group, Mercury News, 16 Apr. 2026 Few details have been released, but Miami Fire told CBS News Miami that crews were called to the corner of 9th Street and South Miami Avenue in Brickell after getting reports of a possible overdose of a 20-year-old man. —Abby Dodge, CBS News, 15 Apr. 2026 Few details have been released, but Miami Fire Rescie told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami that crews were called to the corner of Ninth Street and South Miami Avenue in Brickell after getting reports of a possible overdose of a 20-year-old man. —Cbs News Miami, Miami Herald, 15 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for overdose
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Back then, online purchases hadn’t been invented, experiences were less curated, and the World Cup was regarded as a festival of soccer rather than an opportunity to extract consumer surplus.— John Cassidy, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
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Of course, Indiana closed fiscal year 2025 with a $676 million surplus and billions in reserves, which makes these sorts of decisions possible.— The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 20 Apr. 2026
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How war became inevitable Yet Netanyahu shows no concern for how Israel’s excesses are fueling antisemitism in what has been Israel’s only dependable ally.— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 17 Apr. 2026
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McIlroy, in particular, was thought to have turned down an offer in excess of Jon Rahm’s reported £500 million contract.— Will Barker, TheWeek, 17 Apr. 2026
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And an offensive tackle seems like overkill, given how much the Chiefs have already invested recently in their offensive line.— Jesse Newell, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026
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In this telling, the war’s opening act was a literal overkill.— Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2026
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Men’s letters to Shere overflow with complex feelings.— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Apr. 2026
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Effects ripple beyond rural areas When hospitals close, nearby facilities absorb the overflow and often face less competition.— Daniel R. George, The Conversation, 14 Apr. 2026
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Both men marveled at the surfeit of shovels stacked by the door.— Howard Halle, ARTnews.com, 10 Apr. 2026
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The President and the explorer share a few traits, including a surfeit of self confidence.— Jia Tolentino, New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2026
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Denver has an oversupply of apartments right now, thanks to a flurry of developers breaking ground when interest rates were low amid the pandemic.— Thomas Gounley, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
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The problem is exacerbated because retail chocolate prices are still high, so consumer demand is low, and the industry has too much manufacturing capacity, creating an oversupply.— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 17 Apr. 2026
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But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.— Big Think, Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
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In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
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