overflow
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The app also includes features such as tide information, health reporting and a live map showing active overflow discharges.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Rescuers scoured flooded parts of China for survivors on Wednesday after storms killed 17 people and caused dozens of rivers to overflow and a reservoir dam to burst, with officials warning of more rain.
From Barron's ● Jul. 8, 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
If the best fleets can generate their own demand in dense markets, Uber’s aggregation value shrinks to secondary cities and overflow capacity.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
She's got more neck braces and false teeth than she knows what to do with, and her drawers and closets overflow with human hair.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
A separate storm overflow map shows storm overflows in "near real time", with overflows remaining visible for 24 hours after they end.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 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
The background jar stands alone, while the piece in the foreground overflows with a rainbow of plants, flowers, fruit, chamoy candies, gummies and a single real butterfly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 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
If you try to catch it with cupped hands, it overflows.
From "American Street" by Ibi Zoboi
"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
After months of investigation, Drizit Environmental, a South African firm contracted by Sino Metals, concluded that 1.5 million tons of toxic waste had overflowed into the Kafue valley, 30 times what the company had said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2025
Each fall it overflowed its banks and spread over the fields in a silver flood.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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
Customers are overflowing the gym’s official group chats.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hold back a little of the white if necessary to prevent it from overflowing.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
"By reusing plastic waste that is already in Hawaii, we can reduce the environmental and economic impacts of transporting waste plastics from the islands, incinerating it or dumping it in Hawaii's overflowing landfills."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 28, 2026
As Al Michel and Mike Sugerman tell it, the first rendition of their L.A. softball team was overflowing with “geeks,” “nerds” and “goofs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Tears were sliding down her face like a cracking dam doing its best to hold an overflowing lake.
From "Healer of the Water Monster" by Brian Young
