overdose

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Recent Examples of overdose The company has also been producing a low-cost version of naloxone, a drug that reverses overdoses. arkansasonline.com, 20 Mar. 2025 Purdue will pay $900 million of its own funds, and make several non-monetary concessions, including transforming itself into a public benefit company devoted to producing medicine for treating opioid use disorder and reversing overdoses. Reuters, CNN, 19 Mar. 2025 Officials will also deploy emergency vouchers for interim housing and reassess harm reduction policies, including the distribution of fentanyl-smoking supplies in public, a practice that aims to prevent overdose but faces criticism for enabling addiction. Shawna Chen, Axios, 17 Mar. 2025 A little more than a year ago, his 39-year-old son, Adam Harrison, died from an accidental drug overdose. Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overdose
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Noun
  • That, and the surplus of mentors who played for Dad before him.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
  • During the Legislature’s budget session in 2023, Minnesota was working with an $18 billion surplus and approved a budget of $72 billion, a jump from the previous $52 billion budget.
    Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Though the film itself received mixed reviews, Kilmer’s committed performance as the self-destructive rocker who epitomized the psychedelic excesses of the 1960s was widely praised.
    Lindsey Bahr, Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2025
  • Drizzle a bit of oil into the skillet and wipe out the excess so only a thin sheen remains.
    The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • This might sound like overkill, but as the car heats up and snow starts to slide, roof snow can fall onto windshields and obscure vision at intersections or when pressing on the brakes.
    Kade Krichko, Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Since the 2015 Progeny box already gave us seven full concerts from the same tour, an additional show is welcome, but a bit of an overkill.
    Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The Healey administration said the decision to bar people from sleeping on the floor of the airport came as an overflow shelter opened at a former prison in Norfolk last summer.
    Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 14 Mar. 2025
  • During rainstorms, runoff sometimes overwhelms the plant’s sewage treatment system, dumping a mixture of sewage and storm runoff directly into the Pacific Ocean – an event known as a combined sewer overflow.
    Robin Kundis Craig, The Conversation, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Under Lightfoot, the district benefited from a surfeit of federal stimulus dollars that went to hiring.
    Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 4 Apr. 2025
  • There are plenty of period pieces on TV, too, with a surfeit of fun costumes and grand settings and now-foreign social rules.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 18 June 2024
Noun
  • According to the National Grid ESO, curtailment of wind power alone cost British consumers over £800 million in 2023, as renewable generators were paid to shut down during periods of oversupply, with the tab being picked up by households.
    Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 31 Mar. 2025
  • According to Marks, markets are running with the idea of an oversupply of data centeres but ignored Cowen’s report that Google and Meta are stepping in to carry some of the load.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The algorithms in Google’s Pixel Watch look for changes in pulse amplitude that might be a sign of cardiac arrest.
    IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Mar. 2025
  • The study revealed significant changes in the biomechanical properties of the astronauts' eyes, including a 33% drop in ocular rigidity, an 11% decrease in intraocular pressure, and a 25% reduction in ocular pulse amplitude.
    Victoria Corless, Space.com, 5 Feb. 2025

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