excessively
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In healthy muscles, they prevent DEAF1 from becoming excessively active.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
"You can't run an effective health service with staff who are excessively anxious, as well as not having the right mix of staff and the right numbers of staff."
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
"Dario was ambitious, eager to succeed and be recognized for it, but not excessively or abnormally," says Marre, now a research director at France's INSERM.
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
Last September, Amazon paid $2.5 billion to settle allegations that it deceptively tricked consumers into Amazon Prime subscriptions and made cancelling them excessively difficult.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026
But in a close vote, his Maryland colleagues rejected his reading of the document as excessively pessimistic.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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