EXCESSES Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

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noun

plural of excess

as in surpluses

the state or an instance of going beyond what is usual, proper, or needed a new television season with an excess of sitcoms featuring wisecracking teenagers

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verb

present tense third-person singular of excess

as in axes

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Noun

But Coppola’s film, irrespective of its fatal flaws and excesses, at least meant something in the context of his career. — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 29 Sep. 2026 In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel The Giver, a world of human complexity has been flattened deliberately to remove the inconvenient excesses of emotion and feeling. — Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2026 Over his shoulder was an enormous portrait of the hatchet-wielding temperance crusader Carrie Nation, an icon of resistance to the excesses of the first Gilded Age, when similar discontent had roiled the prairies. — Kyle Paoletta, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026 At the exact same time, young, upstart groups like the Ramones and the Clash were forming in response to the corporatization of rock, the bloated egos of its biggest stars, and the excesses of prog with the back-to-basics minimalism of punk. — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 18 Sep. 2026 When companies won’t do the right thing themselves, litigation has proven effective at checking their excesses. — Susan Morrisey, STAT, 15 Sep. 2026 Ancient critics could never quite agree on the direction of causality between Euripides’ formal excesses and the political decay of Athens around him — and Lichtenberg thinks that same ambiguity now surrounds AI. — Aris Alexander, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2026 In some cases, even documentation of the state's excesses invites intimidation. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 Rather, balancing the economic drive of private innovation against its potential excesses is a whole-of-society effort. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Using aggressive budget caps that force huge surpluses, the governor has used $11 billion since 2020 to shrink pension debt.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 3 Oct. 2026
Fulton argued the proposition effectively would limit clinics from accumulating surpluses and reserves.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of surpluses

Verb

In a shocker, Microsoft is tapping Call of Duty publisher Activision to build the next Halo game as Redmond axes more jobs at its first-party studios.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026
Continue reading … BADGE DRAIN — Seattle axes $50K police bonuses while sitting hundreds of officers short.

— , FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of axes

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Researchers detected high abundances of sodium, likely from icy brines within the original asteroid.

— Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Some samples from Jilin showed particularly high abundances of heavy rare earth elements compared to neighboring regions.

— Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026

Definition of abundances

Verb

But these policies don't protect people from a layoff due to other factors like if the company downsizes or closes operations.

— Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
The movie follows Lee Byung-hun (Squid Game) as Yoo Man-su, a man who is fired from his job at a paper manufacturing company after an American company buys out his company and downsizes.

— Tommy McArdle, PEOPLE, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of downsizes

Verb

The change, announced in a presentation on Wednesday, is part of a broader shift in Microsoft’s reporting structure, as the company trims its operating segments from three to two.

— Jordan Novet, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026
To make things easier, Instagram rolled out a new First Draft tool on Tuesday that automatically trims your clips and prepares them for the next stage of the editing process.

— Jibin Joseph, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of trims

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Cale Britt sacks the quarterback and Bishop Moore will take over on downs at their own 42.

— Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Aug. 2026
Manning, back for what is probably his final season, is on the short list of best returning quarterbacks in the country and edge rusher Colin Simmons won the SEC sacks title with 12.

— Cedric Golden, Austin American Statesman, 3 Jan. 2026

Definition of sacks

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Andrew Garfield stars as Altman, with Anora‘s Yura Borisov playing Ilya Sutskever, the chief scientific officer and co-founder of OpenAI who fires Altman.

— Abid Rahman, HollywoodReporter, 6 Oct. 2026
Dennis Dooley, who was standing on the roadbed below, fires one shot, striking Bottom.

— Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 3 Oct. 2026

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