overpopulated

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Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

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

She agreed with the agency’s argument that it had the authority to round up horses as soon as it determined the herd was overpopulated.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2024

Instead of moving 90,000 residents out of the overpopulated district and into the underpopulated one, the state swapped more than 50,000 residents into the overpopulated district and moved 140,000 residents out of it.

From Slate • Oct. 11, 2023

Instead, his appearance was absurd—the empty tract of his chin was at the expense of a worried, overpopulated forehead.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan