1
as in overly
beyond a normal or acceptable limit
ticket prices for the rock concert are simply too high
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2
as in then
in addition to what has been said
I want to buy this sweater—and that sweater too!
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as in extremely
to a great degree
the audience didn't seem too interested in what the speaker had to say
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Unfortunately for Lee and his Raspberry Pi, Houston is hot and humid for approximately 10 months out of the year, so his tiny computer gave up the ghost after one 98° day too many.
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Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2024
Perry was very much a pop producer, but his music touched other genres, too.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Dec. 2024
With extreme weather events seemingly more the norm and their victims too often increasingly unnoticed and forgotten, the region’s climate casualties garner the dubious distinction of Worst Year in Asia.
—Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024
Matthieu’s garments while at the house were imaginative and surreal without being too on the nose.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 13 Dec. 2024
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Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2024
Perry was very much a pop producer, but his music touched other genres, too.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 25 Dec. 2024
With extreme weather events seemingly more the norm and their victims too often increasingly unnoticed and forgotten, the region’s climate casualties garner the dubious distinction of Worst Year in Asia.
—Curtis S. Chin and Jose B. Collazo, CNBC, 25 Dec. 2024
Matthieu’s garments while at the house were imaginative and surreal without being too on the nose.
—Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 13 Dec. 2024
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There’s a line between simply friendly and overly friendly, especially when there’s a pattern that seems to show a preference for attractive and younger women.R. Eric Thomas, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2024
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Your wedding outfit should also be respectful, shying away from overly revealing pieces.Shelby Wax, Vogue, 13 Dec. 2024
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The tour will then move on to Lagos for a show at the Palms on February 25.Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 17 Dec. 2024
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The series will then air in blocks, marathon-style, each weekend, where it will be paired with Friends.Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 17 Dec. 2024
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The fields of law and insurance are extremely complicated for the layperson, with documents full of terms and concepts that may as well be a foreign language to those unfamiliar with them.Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
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These functions are easy to compute in one direction and extremely difficult to reverse.John Pavlus, WIRED, 15 Dec. 2024
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Furloughed employees wouldn't be allowed to respond to calls or emails either.Sam Woodward, USA TODAY, 21 Dec. 2024
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This wasn’t just qualitative input, either—data played a role.Ethan Karp, Forbes, 20 Dec. 2024
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So there was very little time for me to … WINSLET: … be an artist.Kate Aurthur, Variety, 15 Dec. 2024
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Well, not all of AI, but in the very near future, there will be legislation aimed at protecting consumers from the nefarious use of AI.Shep Hyken, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
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His uncles are former President John F. Kennedy, also a former Massachusetts senator who was assassinated in 1963; and former Sen. Ted Kennedy, who served from 1962 until his death in 2009.Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2024
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Aronowitz, who can briefly be spotted in the current Beatles ’64 doc, was also the first manager of the Velvet Underground and introduced Dylan to Allen Ginsberg, and Jimi Hendrix to Miles Davis.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 17 Dec. 2024
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All, that is, except the lamb, which was only a baby itself and still terribly afraid.Karen Zautyk, New York Daily News, 24 Dec. 2024
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MacHale tried to assist by arranging a team-building trip, but the gesture ultimately backfired on him terribly.Jordan Runtagh, People.com, 23 Dec. 2024
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And besides, by the time the 31st arrives, people are holiday-seasoned out, and New Year’s feels more like a Christmas coda.James Grebey, Vulture, 23 Dec. 2024
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The Russians are juggling the materiel and manpower demands of the long-running war, punitive Western sanctions, low oil prices, high interest rates, inflation, a labor shortage, endemic corruption, and much more besides.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Nov. 2024
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