overabundant
Example Sentences
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In Yellowstone National Park, their return has been praised with reducing the overabundant elk population and allowing decimated trees such as willows and aspen to recover, which subsequently brought the return of beavers and songbirds.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
The discovery comes at a time when overabundant purple urchins have decimated entire forests along the Pacific Coast.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023
Customer demand was soaring, but solar production declined as evening fell, and officials no longer had access to that overabundant solar power from earlier in the day.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
In theory, reintroducing proxy thylacines could help restore balance to Tasmania’s remaining forests by picking off sick or weak animals and controlling overabundant herbivores such as wallabies and kangaroos, some researchers say.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 16, 2022
There is an almost unbearable pain needling my fingers as a result of these overabundant scribblings.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
