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Synonyms and antonyms of the word: excesses

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Usage examples:

A driver has been taken into custody after police located a stolen car driving at excesses of 100mph.

Source: https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/23471039.a34-driver-arrested-police-spot-stolen-car-driving-100mph/?ref=rss

A leading pro-democracy campaigner and Kremlin critic has been sentenced to 25 years in a Russian penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine after a show trial that has been compared with the most brutal excesses of the Stalin era.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11983077/IAN-BIRRELL-breathtaking-courage-Vladimir-Putins-latest-trial-victim.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Allowing for that oversight, “Time Bomb Y2K” still speaks to the excesses of that earlier period in a way that connects directly to the present, providing a taste of how media frenzies happen filtered through the 20th century’s final freakout.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/12/30/time-bomb-y2k-ignites-the-media-hysteria-around-the-20th-centurys-final-freakout/

At the risk of stating the obvious, the job of the news media is to be watchdogs on behalf of the tax-paying public and keep them informed of all the excesses, abnormalities, and corruption occurring.

Source: https://www.gopusa.com/have-you-heard-about-the-proposed-1-7-million-toilet-in-san-francisco/

But analysts have warned they are symptomatic of the excesses that developed during a decade of historically low interest rates.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/26/business/credit-markets-uncertainty-interest-rates.html

But Germany’s excesses proved simply too savage: Eventually Wilson wearily submitted to the historical necessity of joining the Allies, in order to make the world “safe for democracy.”

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/11/books/review/ghost-at-the-feast-robert-kagan.html

Campaigners provide evidence of numerous excesses, including arbitrary detention, torture, sexual crimes, disappearances and severe punishment of dissent.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/27/china-wants-to-erase-tibet-will-britain-stay-quiet-about-this

Despite everyone knowing what was taking place, neither the Forest department nor transport or anyone from the district administration took any action to stop these excesses until the road almost became unusable,” informed social activist BM Marak.

Source: https://theshillongtimes.com/2023/09/29/how-human-greed-destroyed-a-completely-working-road/

Even if they've grown wary of her excesses, many of Boebert’s supporters say she’s amplified their concerns nationally and served as an an antidote to progressive Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Source: https://www.gjsentinel.com/news/colorado/boeberts-backers-urge-her-to-tone-down-the-nasty-rhetoric/article_d6ad9f32-06fa-5fbf-8e0b-b2a5cb21c4c5.html

From the start of this war, there has been an asymmetry: Israel, a democracy, has to answer every day for its actions and mistakes and excesses.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/opinion/israel-war-gaza.html

He, however, urged the police and other security agencies to go a step further to curb the excesses of warmongers and scaremongers, who are desperate in their bid to foment trouble in the state.

Source: https://www.blueprint.ng/lagos-apc-condemns-post-election-hate-speeches-fake-news/

His family also said that some people were now taking offence at the actor's "excesses when only a short time ago that was part of the reason we loved him.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20231217-depardieu-family-denounces-conspiracy-against-french-film-icon-1

In 1956, Nikita Khrushchev denounced his predecessor’s excesses and rehabilitated the Red Army.

Source: https://theclarion.ca/viewpoint/dictators-are-always-on-the-brink-of-collapse-and-inevitably-implode/

“It will see the worst excesses of these new laws struck out.

Source: https://newmatilda.com/2023/05/13/edo-help-knitting-nannas-take-on-unconstitutional-anti-protest-laws/

Liberals like the French politician and traveler Alexis de Tocqueville, though concerned about possible excesses of government, imagined democracy as a form of politics that offered startling new opportunities for equal citizenship.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/opinion/liberalism-trump-russia-china-cold-war.html

My prayer during Lent is to recognize how comfortable my life is, and then to trim back the excesses.

Source: https://georgiabulletin.org/commentary/2023/03/journey-into-the-deepest-heart-of-lent/

Netanyahu will eventually be condemned for all of the excesses in Gaza and the West Bank.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/12/15/the-sinister-career-of-ariel-sharon-from-sabra-and-shatilla-to-gaza/

Nigeria’s socioeconomic woes were compounded by the failure of the Ahmad Lawan-led 9th national assembly to checkmate the executive excesses.

Source: https://www.opinionnigeria.com/the-making-of-a-rubber-stamp-10th-senate-by-mon-charles-egbo/

She charged that the paper was displaying “uninhibited antisemitism” by arguing that a “lack of manners” and “excesses” were specific characteristics of Sephardic Jews.

Source: https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/02/16/israeli-ambassador-to-france-accuses-leading-newspaper-of-uninhibited-antisemitism/

She said that such excesses on the part of the government were an assault on media freedom.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/will-cooperate-with-lawful-probe-asianet-news/article66584936.ece