overfilled
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In one deafening and dangerous laboratory mishap, a glass tube that was overfilled with gas exploded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
"The criminal statutes cited in this case are pretty broad and could apply to millions of people who don't file a return for one reason or another... prisons could, theoretically, be overfilled with tax criminals."
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”
From Washington Times ● May 5, 2023
He died a hero when his plane overfilled with aid en route to earthquake victims in Nicaragua crashed off the coast of Puerto Rico on New Year’s Eve 1972.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2020
It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
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