overrun

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

The Tucson suburb of Catalina Foothills was as overrun with reporters as the Brentwood neighborhood of O.J.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026

The following day, Kabul was overrun by trucks.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini

Because of the way Boeing’s contract is structured, the company must cover all cost overruns on the program.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 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. 20, 2026

He also said he wanted to see a "sustained increase" in defence investment, without committing to a specific target, whilst being "more open with the public" about cost overruns or delays to military procurement.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 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

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

The North Vietnamese Communist offensive overran the South, sending more than a million “boat people” into the open ocean.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 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

Since last year, when the RSF overran parts of Darfur and Kordofan, the militia has commandeered the gum trade, integrating it into its smuggling empire and further starving government coffers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

In particular, Bantu farmers who acquired cows and sheep spread out of their homeland in West Africa and within a short time overran the former hunter-gatherers in most of the rest of sub-Saharan Africa.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

The floating pier had a troubled launch, with crowds overrunning some of the first trucks coming from the new U.S.-led sea route and taking its contents over the weekend.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

With many missions overrunning their budgets, the agency has proposed dramatic changes.

From Science Magazine ● Mar. 11, 2024

The government took aim at overrunning and disruptive street repairs, saying it would "consult on extending fines for repairs which run into weekends and increasing current levels of fixed penalty notices".

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2023

But a few were uninhabited and gloomy-looking with dandelions overrunning the yard and limp gutters hanging loose from the weight of soggy old leaves and broken tree branches.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos