overdose

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Recent Examples of overdose In 2022, Eminem and his longtime manager, Paul Rosenberg, reflected on how the Grammy-winner learned to rap again after his near-fatal 2007 overdose. Demicia Inman, VIBE.com, 23 May 2025 In a November 2023 interview with HBO's Real Sports, Irsay opened up about a past drug overdose that stopped his breathing. Rachel Treisman, NPR, 22 May 2025 The following month, he was found unresponsive after an apparent overdose, according to reports from ESPN and TMZ. Angel Saunders, People.com, 22 May 2025 Irsay always denied that the incident was an overdose. Jacob Lev, CNN Money, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for overdose
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Noun
  • New movies and series are added to Apple TV Plus every Wednesday and Friday, ad-free, and in surplus.
    Alexander Cox, Space.com, 26 May 2025
  • Connecticut has funneled $12.5 billion in surpluses since 2017 to build reserves and scale back pension debt, a furious pace that far outstrips any similar effort in modern history.
    Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 25 May 2025
Noun
  • That's right—even the sprayer in your at-home spa needs to be cleaned from time to time to remove an excess of buildup that can change the way your soothing shower feels.
    Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 23 May 2025
  • Workers have to remove large seven-point leaves, weigh them and account for each piece of plant material before the excess gets thrown away.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Rivalries Are Easier To Exploit In any other region, the burden Concacaf places on teams would be seen as obvious overkill.
    Ian Nicholas Quillen, Forbes.com, 25 May 2025
  • In an age when blockbuster overkill is supposed to be saving movies, the film reminds you that the real salvation of cinema will always come from those who understand that making a movie should be a magic trick good enough to fool the magician himself into believing it.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2025
Noun
  • Approximately 300 people attended the dedication ceremony, which took place in the auditorium and spilled out into a full overflow room.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 27 May 2025
  • Next door, a packed overflow room of additional journalists listened via a live feed.
    Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 18 May 2025
Noun
  • The rooms are immaculate but lifeless, albeit with a surfeit of gold leaf.
    Peter Rutland, The Conversation, 9 May 2025
  • However, the speculative bubble, which saw a surfeit of product land on the market, needs to be addressed.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 17 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Cobalt and nickel prices have collapsed since 2022 and both are now in oversupply worldwide.
    Victor Vescovo, Time, 22 May 2025
  • Philippine builders from Ayala Land to the billionaire Sy family’s SM Prime are slowing down the construction and marketing of new high-rise housing projects as the real estate industry grapples with an oversupply of middle-income condominiums in Metro Manila.
    Ian Sayson, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • His performance is the loudest thing in it by an amplitude of 10.
    Amy Nicholson, Twin Cities, 15 May 2025
  • First, why are speech and music so distinct in their amplitude over time?
    Andrew Chang, Scientific American, 18 Sep. 2024

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