excess
noun
the fact of exceeding something else in amount or degree.
excesses
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pluralof excess.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Now they also realize they “don’t want these excesses, don’t want the federal government to come in and round up everyone, especially people that don’t have a criminal past.”
From Slate ● Sep. 21, 2026
Gao, 70 years old, and his brother, Gao Qiang, created works that criticized the excesses of Communist Party rule in China.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Abstinence campaigns have gathered ground in many countries in recent years, notably the trend to pursue a "Dry January" after Christmas and New Year's Eve excesses.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Yet its authority is not self-executing: It relies on lower courts to implement its decisions, extend their logic, and normalize the resulting excesses.
From Slate ● Jul. 17, 2026
Chacko had been a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and was permitted excesses and eccentricities nobody else was.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
