overpopulated

Example Sentences

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One thing stood out: The roots of their sentiments lay in concerns that the United States has become overpopulated.

From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024

That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 29, 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

The solution to overpopulated and understaffed jails is not locking up people who shouldn’t be locked up, she said.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 6, 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