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overrun

verb as in defeat, invade

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Finally, after multiple delays and budget overruns, the California High Speed Rail Authority’s project aims to begin service around 2029, according to CEO Brian Kelly.

From Time

I’ll bet you see the outlet store as a repository for department store overruns, department store offseason items, and a place to get a great bargain.

Despite its successful engine test Thursday, the program has suffered years of setbacks, delays and significant cost overruns.

Construction started in 2017 but mostly stopped in September 2020, after the contractor quit over what it said were 2 ½ years of delays and hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cost overruns.

In response, Metro Chief Operating Officer Joe Leader said software has been updated in 7000-series trains to help prevent overruns while Metro also installs a similar system in 6000-series trains.

Islands overrun by flawed people, both indigenous and imperialist.

He was one of six children who had been in the Ebola isolation center that had been overrun.

Had they overrun the Iraqi unit,” Dempsey said, “it was a straight shot to the airport.

The episode includes satirical images of crime-ridden, rat-infested slums overrun by child-biting monkeys.

Hospitals, overrun with Ebola patients and low on supplies, are not available for his 8-month pregnant wife.

Before the country was overrun by the white man, they probably inhabited the region bordering on the Mississippi.

Better let France overrun Hanover, for, as we shall possess her colonies, we can force her to surrender it again.

They have been sheltering refugees from every nation that has been devastated and overrun by the mad Huns.

The consequence was that the whole city was overrun with pamphlets.

This place is completely overrun by soldiers passing and repassing.

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On this page you'll find 103 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to overrun, such as: massacre, occupy, overwhelm, raid, rout, and swamp.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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