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Under shaded tents, plates overflow with fried fish and macaroni salad as elders hold court, trading stories about “the old record shop on Avalon” and the Los Angeles they remember “before the riots.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

But the DA cautioned that adequate security was needed to prevent spectators from covertly recording the trial from an overflow room in violation of New York law.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Extreme weather has already wreaked havoc on southern and central China this week, with storms leaving at least 39 dead and causing dozens of rivers to overflow and a reservoir dam to burst.

From Barron's ● Jul. 10, 2026

To handle the extra volume, engineers send surplus water down 5 Shaft into the deep pool below, much like an overflow spillway helps relieve pressure at a full reservoir.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 6, 2026

There’s now a huge mound of medicine that is slowly starting to overflow.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

The gag-filled comedy overflows with wackiness, as is customary for “Looney Tunes,” but also, and perhaps less expectedly, poignancy galore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

“All Eyez on Me,” the double album Shakur released in 1996, overflows with groovy bass samples that display his reverence for 1970s and 1980s R&B—Kool & the Gang, Bootsy Collins, Cameo and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Because I’m a stranger who people regularly turn to for financial help, my inbox typically overflows with general questions like the one above.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 22, 2026

Retrofitting the warehouse for immigration detention would create construction sediment that would run into nearby waterways, Maryland’s lawsuit argued, and housing hundreds of people there would strain the water supply and create sewage overflows.

From Slate ● Apr. 27, 2026

The sick fluid of adolescent despair that runs through her veins overflows again into mine.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Early “Twin Peaks” message boards overflowed with theories from fans about the show’s cast of weirdos and its fathoms-deep lore—a form of viewer speculation that would later spread even more widely on social-media platforms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026

"Rivers that are normally completely frozen have overflowed where they hadn't historically," he told the BBC, causing layered, unstable ice sheets that are hazardous to travel over in winter months.

From BBC ● Apr. 12, 2026

Although recovery efforts were under way in parts of the city, some outlying areas remained at risk as a nearby river overflowed, forcing another 500 people to evacuate on Thursday morning.

From Barron's ● Jan. 8, 2026

Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels, overflowed crater rims, and rushed through canyons.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025

Granola bars and fruit snacks and juice boxes overflowed from a little basket near the door.

From "Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World" by Ashley Herring Blake

The victims died on Sunday and Monday in Minas Gerais state, where rivers have overflown, leaving towns partially submerged.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2022

Its military this month deployed tanks to the Tajik border with Afghanistan and has overflown the region with ground-attack jets, ostensibly on training exercises.

From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2021

"That island was overflown by a plane catapulted from the USS Colorado a few days after she went missing. The pilot didn't see any recent activity."

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2019

According to the Palestinian Ma’an news agency, several Israeli bulldozers entered the southern Gaza Strip early on Thursday overflown by drones, which would fit with the timeframe described by the Israeli military.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 18, 2016

Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice.

From "The Giver" by Lois Lowry

Thanks to the boom in online fitness and beauty culture, our feeds are constantly overflowing with good-looking people who are just too boring to be hot.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

With morgues overflowing, some 1,030 bodies have been buried in mass graves after taking DNA samples for future identification, Nepal Police said on Saturday.

From Barron's ● Sep. 5, 2026

"If someone's not helping you remove those pots and pans, your water's overflowing by the end of the day," she says, "and you're at tipping point."

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026

This is roughly equivalent to stopping an overflowing bathtub by shutting off the water to the entire apartment building because you cannot get to the faucet.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 31, 2026

Under the eaves at either edge were countless scruffy-Iooking nests, all of which appeared to be filled to overflowing with shrieking baby sparrows.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques