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n. - A quantity that is more than what is appropriate; The state of being more than full.

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  • Four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy
  • I love how you notice things I never did; it makes me want to start cooking and appreciating all the MidWest corn that is in overabundance.
  • There is a glut of CGI films. -or an "overabundance" if you like it better that way.
  • Brooks said visitors to Georgia's Capitol find an "overabundance" of Confederate history and post-Reconstruction and Dixiecrat eras.
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