overpopulated
Example Sentences
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"If you were drawing up a country from scratch, a well-educated, well-resourced, not overpopulated country would be what you would want, right? So, I think Canada has all those things, all those features," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
The reason the lion is in trouble is “he’s overpopulated, and the sad thing is, he’s out of food.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026
Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.
From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2024
Instead of moving 90,000 residents out of the overpopulated district and into the underpopulated one, the state swapped more than 50,000 residents into the overpopulated district and moved 140,000 residents out of it.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2023
And it's amazing to me, because I can look at everything—the whole overpopulated, overtraveled, overtrucked, overpaved, overbillboarded, full-color, three-dimensional world zipping by at seventy miles an hour—and I can get bored.
From "Things Not Seen" by Andrew Clements
