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verbflood, overrun

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Survivors describe scooping it into their helmets before lowering themselves into shark-infested waters.

HOW ICE CREAM BECAME THE ULTIMATE AMERICAN COMFORT FOODMATT SIEGELAUGUST 27, 2021EATER

Being infested with those microbes can slow a mussel’s growth — and reproduction, too.

COMMON PARASITE MAY HELP MUSSELS SURVIVE HEAT WAVESSID PERKINSJUNE 16, 2021SCIENCE NEWS FOR STUDENTS

Another woman’s rental home was infested with rats and cockroaches.

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As one expert notes, 2000 through 2011 saw high levels of pirate activity, with the Gulf of Aden area off the coast of East Africa becoming the most pirate-infested part of the world, and the most dangerous for cargo ships.

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Today, the roughly four dozen known species of Rafflesiaceae all infest vines from a single genus, Tetrastigma.

DNA OF GIANT ‘CORPSE FLOWER’ PARASITE SURPRISES BIOLOGISTSCHRISTIE WILCOXAPRIL 21, 2021QUANTA MAGAZINE

Some companies will vacuum roach-infested sites to capture many bugs and eggs and knock infestations down to levels that can be managed with sticky traps.

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The reason, in significant part, is the changing climate—and how it enabled a beetle species to infest forests in the Canadian province of British Columbia years ago.

THE US WOOD SHORTAGE CAN BE TRACED TO A DECADES-OLD BEETLE INFESTATION IN CANADASAMANTH SUBRAMANIANMARCH 18, 2021QUARTZ

If the actions of men are necessary, if men are not free, what right has society to punish the wicked who infest it?

SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIER

The horrible staring eyes began again to infest his journey, and seemed to accompany him wherever he went.

THE UNDERWORLDJAMES C. WELSH

The sultry nights in Chorillos are rendered doubly unpleasant by the swarms of vermin which infest the houses.

TRAVELS IN PERU, ON THE COAST, IN THE SIERRA, ACROSS THE CORDILLERAS AND THE ANDES, INTO THE PRIMEVAL FORESTSJ. J. VON TSCHUDI

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