overabundant

Example Sentences

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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

He plans to study a specific part of the sky where galaxies seem to be overabundant.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 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