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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a point of excess" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or condition where something has surpassed a normal or acceptable limit.
Example: "The project reached a point of excess, leading to budget overruns and delays."
Alternatives: "a threshold of excess" or "a level of surplus".
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"The madness for feathers has reached a point of excess one never could have suspected," the journalist Louis-François Métra wrote in the winter of 1775.
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A venous blood sample was collected for malaria rapid diagnostic tests, thin and thick blood films, and a point-of-care assessment of standard base excess (BE), negative logarithm of the blood hydrogen ion concentration (pH), glucose, blood urea nitrogen (BUN), hematocrit (HCT), and hemoglobin (Hb) using an automated handheld blood analyzer (i-STAT, Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL).
The significant grain yield response obtained in this experiment from the highest rate of N application with reduced lodging percentage, however, indicates that the point of excess nitrogen rate was not reached to cause excessive biomass production and lodging.
He has an extraordinary love for all things independent and hates to the point of excess all sectarian people, and all schools".
There is sweep and grandeur to the point of excess, counterbalanced by refinement and delicacy.
In other pieces he accumulates to the point of excess, combining masses of objects or materials into impossible densities.
We know how thrilled Anthony was when Mike D'Antoni tried to democratize the Knicks' offense — granted, to the point of excess.
In other ways, too, it is surely good for our lauded figures to model behaviors of effort and discipline even, if necessary, to the point of excess.
By this time, I realized that I had found what I was looking for and was nearing the point of excess.
The whole point of excess was that it should be reported; if you indulged in it personally, good for you, but your pleasure still awaited the cool stroke of a pen and the careful coloring of exaggeration.
In the past, the Girl Scouts have been especially mindful of the risks involved in leading a charge of young girls into the virtual world — with mothers' worry and deference to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act — perhaps to the point of excess.
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