overfilled

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Fire service group manager David Diggins told the BBC there had been "a mixture of some chemicals within the systems" of the pool, which had been overfilled.

From BBC • Jan. 15, 2025

But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

He died a hero when his plane overfilled with aid en route to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve 1972.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2020

Feelings — big, sloppy, mixed, unedited, self-incriminating feelings — slosh out of them like the contents of overfilled, foaming beer mugs on a wobbly tray.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2020

My eyes burned, and a trembling pain started in my gut and moved out, like water into an overfilled glass.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago