overbuilt

Example Sentences

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“If you got to a point where you overbuilt, you could have that as an option,” he told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

But the city became overbuilt and the housing boom went bust in the mid-1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

Only an overbuilt city can offer tenants security and freedom.

From Slate • Sep. 10, 2024

But the country is struggling with troubles in its overbuilt housing market.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

That suggested that Berkeley’s thirty-seven-inch machine was already overbuilt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik