overflow
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They think that Australia could accommodate part of this demand overflow, pointing to its data sovereignty requirements and renewables-assisted capability to power the centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
More than 50 people pack the gallery most days, with even more seated in an overflow room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In recent weeks, Mangione's lawyers questioned procedures for admitting journalists in court and why an overflow room allowing more people to watch the trial hadn't been arranged.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
He looked at more than 350 storm overflow outlets in England and whether there had been heavy rain when they were spilling sewage.
From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026
Their sweet voices pricked my ears, and the sun that warmed them stung my eyes until they began to overflow.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
"That's why we are tripling investment over the next five years to halve spills from storm overflows and upgrade the capacity of 1,700 wastewater treatment works," a spokesperson said.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
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
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
It doesn’t take much for my inbox to fill up, but when the topic is hotel pet peeves it overflows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 1, 2026
Looking down at him on the floor, how he overflows the rug, I think about that story where a giant falls asleep and is tied up by little people.
From "Freak The Mighty" by Rodman Philbrick
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
Plates overflowed with fried eggs, hash browns and bacon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 6, 2026
My father’s memorial service overflowed with friends, former patients and neighbors, each one with a story about how he’d helped them, laughed with them or simply made them feel less alone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
Water gathered in low-lying valleys and river channels, overflowed crater rims, and rushed through canyons.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 31, 2025
That’s when he saw them, the red and blue bolts of light, and that’s when the dread filled him, overflowed, squeezed his heart to dust.
From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro
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
It has a bridal shop overflowing with sparkly gowns and a coffee shop serving up lattes with Chinese symbols for happiness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
A garden hose had been overflowing the pool above the hillside for an “unknown amount of time” when it caused the flooding and subsequent collapse, according to the Fire Department’s 5 p.m. update.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
"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
Mami, who I’m sure will say, “Do you have a permiso?” steps aside like the toilet is overflowing and these are the plumbers coming to the rescue!
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
