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Examples
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If insurance encourages the over-use of health care then wouldn't those who lack insurance under utilize healthcare?
Fogel Vs. Wonks, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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– Particularly where Twitter is being used in a business-to-business world, over-use of Twitter for views on your favourite rock music, football team, TV programme, computer game, etc, etc, will switch me off.
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Is there a link between over-use of projection and mental retardation?
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People complain about an over-use of CGI in films, and yet this is somehow a good thing?
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If things like the drug trade (and related violence and corruption), obesity, and abundant hand guns are costing the nation lives and dollars, the law should nudge people away from their over-use.
Matthew Yglesias » By Request: Your Crime Control Policy On Drugs 2009
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She ought to get a penalty for an egregious over-use of the word “there.”
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They are reasonably safe and effective in children -- not so for older teens and adults, where the specter of over-use, tolerance and addiction has a long historical precedent.
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It would eliminate the enormous price inflation that comes from the outcomeless over-use of the system by people who have no incentive in place to personally ration.
Wonk Room » The Free Market Does Not Work In Health Care 2009
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The hand held up well; I torched by front brake from over-use on the quick decent off Paris Mountain.
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I would love to see an adaptation based on the latest sequels given the past decade's over-use of the zombie.
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