overrun
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Dr Amara Naseem says her clinics always overrun as it takes about 20 minutes to sensitively take a detailed history and carry out internal examinations.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Chilean ambassador Julio Cordano took over the role earlier this year after his predecessor resigned, and with the talks having overrun their initial schedule by more than a year.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
She, much like the person behind the proverbial controller, is dropped into a world quickly becoming overrun by a viral plague with no idea what to do.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“In our view, capex overrun risk is very low,” Citi says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026
Broken windows lined the second floor, and the parking lot was overrun with weeds and wildflowers.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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Officials attempted to use a type of construction contract that would shift the risk of cost overruns onto the contractor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
For instance, for the Eccles project the Fed attempted to adopt the recommendation to use a type of construction contract that shifts the risk of cost overruns to the contractor.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
At the time, Powell said he would not leave that position until the probe over the cost overruns was "well and truly over, with transparency and finality."
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
After cost overruns at America’s last big nuclear power project bankrupted Westinghouse Electric, the company is in the midst of a turnaround and looking at an IPO on the horizon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
The previous year, he had assumed command of construction of the Pentagon, then beleaguered by labor problems, material shortages, cost overruns, and miserable work conditions.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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DAUDZEVA, Latvia—Wearing strips of red tape on their helmets, Danish soldiers stealthily moved through the pine forest and then, unleashing a firestorm, overran a position held by Spanish troops.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
A Boeing 767-300 cargo plane was landing in Miami after departing from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Sunday when it overran the runway and crashed.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
Yemeni brothers Yunes, 33, and Yassin, 24, say they fled Houthi rebels in 2023, after they overran their country's capital eight years earlier.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
On February 24, German troops overran the entire outer trench zone.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
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Seve has let the detritus of life pile up around him — literally — with delivery packages and plastic-wrapped clothes overrunning his tiny Baltimore apartment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2026
Mr. Ellis takes as a case study the overrunning and removal of the Creek Indians in Georgia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
With many missions overrunning their budgets, the agency has proposed dramatic changes.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 11, 2024
Footage seemingly shot by a worker showed a huge mass of earth rushing down a gully, overrunning everything in its path.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
“Under Ralph’s picture, the story reads, ‘Friday afternoon the fifth-grade class of Miss Bambi Kuckenbacker at Irwin J. Sneed Elementary School exhibited a mouse, thought to be one of many mice overrunning their school.
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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