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overpopulated

ADJECTIVE
overcrowded
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Michael Charles, a solicitor specialising in education across Wales and England, said ALN schools had become "very overpopulated".

From BBC • Nov. 8, 2025

And the human species is way overpopulated, about four times overpopulated now.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024

That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 2024

“We’re overpopulated now and with schools and everything else, it’s just a difficult time.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 2024

I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald




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