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inordinate

[in-awr-dn-it] / ɪnˈɔr dn ɪt /


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Investors can also take comfort from the fact that the fund’s managers do not assume an inordinate amount of risk.

From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026

“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026

Scotland have an incredible habit of going scoreless for inordinate amounts of time in Test matches.

From BBC • Nov. 20, 2025

Depositing an inordinate amount of bins around town is just not the way to encourage people to properly dispose of their organic waste, he said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 16, 2025

From that moment forward, Roscuro showed an abnormal, inordinate interest in illumination of all sorts.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo




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