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How to use the word excess in a Sentence?

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We’re not going to be bailed out by excess snow, we’re hitting these pressures of climate change now. Mother Nature is not likely to cooperate with five landmark years, so to expect this to happen five years in a row, that’s not going to happen.

Bonnie Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

But the data don’t support these specific factors as solely driving the trend, so if you have excess body weight, you are at a higher risk of colorectal cancer in your 40s than someone who is average weight. That is true. But the excess risk is pretty small. So again, that is probably not what’s driving this increase, and it’s another reason to think that there’s something else going on.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We know that excess weight increases your risk, and we know that we’ve had a big increase in body weight in this country.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They were established as risk factors in older cohorts of patients, but they do seem to be also associated with early-onset disease, and those are things like excess body weight, lack of physical activity, high consumption of processed meat and red meat, very high alcohol consumption.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Anecdotally, in conferences that I’ve attended, that is the word on the street: that most of these patients are very healthy. They’re not obese; they’re very active, we know that excess weight increases your risk, and we know that we’ve had a big increase in body weight in this country.

Rebecca Siegel

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Any possible (and, as yet unproven) risks of excess erythritol would also need to be balanced against the very real health risks of excess glucose consumption.

Oliver Jones

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Though there are better, more eco-friendly ways to shop, the two approaches to shopping these sites that cause more eco burden are 1) not shopping with modest consumption in mind( buying more than you need, duplicates ‘ just in case, ’ or overindulging in extras or add-ons because of sale pricing) ; and, 2) purchasing excess with an ‘ I ’ll return this if it does n’t work ’ mindset, returns are extremely environmentally taxing, from the transit to the waste and sometimes tossed merchandise, so shop with a mindset of moderation whenever possible.

Ashlee Piper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Added sugars are often found in processed foods which have little nutritional value and may lead to overeating and excess calorie intake, which in turn leads to overweight/obesity, a well-established risk factor for heart disease.

Brooke Aggarwal

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Combine a strong labor market with a still substantial reserve of excess savings, and you have all the components in place to keep the Fed up at night.

Jason Vaillancourt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you have oily or acne-prone skin, look for a primer that minimizes shine, blurs the pores and prevents breakouts, salicylic acid is a go-to ingredient because it keeps the pores clear and removes excess oil from the skin.

Joshua Zeichner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m also not a fan of single-use beauty products, even though a sheet mask is such a dream for your skin, so I've started looking for products that can be used indefinitely, dieux Skin's reusable eye masks are genius — you just apply your favorite eye serum, pop them on, go about your day for the next 20 to 30 minutes, then peel them off, rinse and place them back in their case for your next at-home spa day. I feel so much better knowing that I'm not contributing excess waste to the planet for the sake of my undereyes.

Hannah Baxter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Demand in the US has collapsed, two months ago, your wait time was two or three months. Now you can get one immediately. They’re going to build more cars than they sell for a third straight quarter. It’s the definition of excess capacity.

Gordon Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For cattle and beef, once the market processes the excess animals sent to slaughter and has a smaller breeding herd to operate off of - [ price increases ] could be six months to well over a year. For specialty crops it could be immediate upon harvest.

Daniel Munch

Found on CNN
1 year ago

While that will certainly curtail demand, I wouldn't expect to see heavy easing in terms of prices, just because there's very little excess capacity in the marketplace to absorb any additional demand, people cry wolf on oil prices.

Bill Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Daily departing seats over the summer will average 104,000 — giving a daily excess of 4,000 seats. On average only about 1,500 of these 4,000 daily seats have currently been sold to passengers.

Heathrow CEO John Holland-Kaye

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It would be a smart strategic initiative, retailers are stuck with excess inventory of unprecedented levels. They can't afford to take back even more of it.

Burt Flickinger

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I believe people should be worried about the acidity of vinegar when consumed in excess, especially if they have specific conditions that require them to limit intake of acidic foods and drinks like IBS, IBD, gastritis, diverticulitis GERD, weight loss surgery, etc..

Patricia Kolesa

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When you have one or two years with excess mortality, it means that something was going on. But another thing that really caught my attention is the fact that it wasn't any year -- because it was just seven or eight years before the( plague) actually came to Europe.

Phil Slavin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The excess saving has been enough to cushion the impact of declining real wages on spending, even for lower-income households, american households are for the most part in a good financial place.

Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Excess mortality is the difference between the number of deaths that have been recorded and those that would be expected in the absence of the pandemic.

Samira Asma

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These calzones often have about 1,700 mg of sodium in just one serving! An excess of sodium in the diet can lead to increased blood pressure.

Allison Tallman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

People have been paying off their credit cards very quickly during the pandemic, and that's starting to slow as people have started to wear down their buffer of excess savings.

Leo Feler

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The third most costly disaster in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was the Western wildfires, in excess of $ 10 billion, and with these late-year events, like what happened in Colorado, we'll probably have to up that even further in our first-quarter analysis this spring.

Adam Smith

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I never, ever saw him order more than two drinks, he didn't jog. He didn't lift weights. But he didn't do anything to excess. We live in a world of excuses, or overindulgence, drinking and eating too much. He will eat a dessert like the rest of us, but he's not having two. He's not having an extra helping of anything, except for greens maybe. That's just the way he managed his life.

Loran Smith

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

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