overrun
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By the end of the day, the Taliban had overrun the presidential palace.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Last month, a park in Fairfax in Marin County was overrun with fleas.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
Ali Munif, 46, has been living in a displacement camp on the outskirts of Marib city since his village was overrun by the rebels in 2021.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
A quarter century on from the song’s release, the U.S. economy is overrun with people who believe that nothing should come with a price tag.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026
What had once been a line of busy communities was now a mass of tumbledown homes and untended fields overrun by blackberries.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
Then owned by Toshiba, it incurred billions of dollars in cost overruns related to the planned construction of four nuclear reactors in the southeastern U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The results included $280 million in losses on the VC-25B program for the presidential plane, Air Force One, which has been beset by delays and cost overruns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 28, 2026
Two brand-new Boeing Air Force Ones are due to be delivered later this decade after a series of delays and cost overruns.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
The DOE has completed some major maintenance through a $1.4 billion project, but the effort has been plagued by delays and cost overruns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 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
The fire department said the plane overran a runway and hit multiple vehicles near the airport, where more than 60 firefighting units rushed to the scene.
From Barron's ● 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
US broadcaster Fox US overran adverts, external during a hydration break in the opening match of the tournament between Mexico and South Africa.
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Everything changed, he said, when the RSF overran Al-Nahud last May.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 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
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
Traditionally dry rocky arroyos and ditches were overrunning their banks; irrigation diversions and culverts were buried in mud the consistency of peanut butter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2023
One tiny mouse an invader overrunning the whole school all by himself?
From "Ralph S. Mouse" by Beverly Cleary
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