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Jaynes said Gaon is a private man who obtained a biology degree in college and allows the vegetation in his front yard to overgrow so he can observe butterflies and other insects.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

Don’t let plants overgrow them, and make sure no dirt or debris is getting in.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

People who take high doses of antibiotics tend to lose many of their normal gut bacteria, allowing a naturally antibiotic-resistant species called Clostridium difficile to overgrow and cause severe gastric problems, especially chronic diarrhea.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

Mr Merrick, who was from Leicester, is thought to have had a condition called Proteus syndrome which can cause tissue to overgrow.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2021

The prune, in fact, is more apt to overgrow the myrobalan than the almond, and the myrobalan will not do well on light soils likely to dry out as the almond will.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

A few days of stubble almost overgrew a soul patch under his lip, like weeds overtaking a garden.

From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2016

Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels.

From Time Magazine Archive

It showed no variation but of tint: green, where rush and moss overgrew the marshes; black, where the dry soil bore only heath.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Suspicion overgrew confidence, and the heart bristled with the nettles and thorns of fear and jealousy.

From Twelve Causes of Dishonesty by Henry Ward Beecher

Afraid of mockery, cynicism and indifference were put forward as a protection until at length these evil influences overgrew it entirely.

From Paul Verlaine by Stefan Zweig

Researchers speculate that people may have brought the rodent to California as a natural remedy to battle overgrowing vegetation or simply because they liked them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2026

We are witnessing a population of infant black holes overgrowing their nurseries and flourishing faster than expected in the distant, early universe.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 21, 2023

"To walk on the roads because the path isn't safe because of all the hemlock and vegetation overgrowing, they're being put in this really difficult and unsafe position," she says.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2023

Both animals are being used to munch overgrowing vegetation and fertilize the soil to “rewild” the landscapes.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 7, 2023

The weeds are overgrowing my burial-place, and they deaden even thy sorrow, O my aged father!

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science by Various

A resident of Launceston, Cornwall, goes above and beyond battling weeds and overgrown pathways free of charge to keep fit and help the community.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

Resident Elz Ravenscroft asked Vernon if he would cut back the overgrown bushes on the pavement which her daughter used to walk to and from school.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

It remainsfenced-off, with trash and graffitiand with overgrown vines covering tributes to Kennedy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

The housework piled up, the yard is overgrown, her expenses have risen and she can’t keep up with her health now that he is gone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

At midafternoon they lay back in an overgrown lot next to two tiny houses, the only houses they’d seen that afternoon.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt