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overbuilt

ADJECTIVE
overcrowded
Synonyms


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“If you got to a point where you overbuilt, you could have that as an option,” he told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

But the city became overbuilt and the housing boom went bust in the mid-1960s.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2025

Only an overbuilt city can offer tenants security and freedom.

From Slate ● Sep. 10, 2024

By the end, the playing space, like the once pristine frontier, is so overbuilt you can see little else.

From New York Times ● Jun. 18, 2024

That suggested that Berkeley’s thirty-seven-inch machine was already overbuilt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik




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