overbuilt

Example Sentences

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“If you got to a point where you overbuilt, you could have that as an option,” he told analysts.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Banksy’s L.A. mural, 2010’s “Swing Girl,” is downtown, visible only from a deep alley between buildings — which is the point it makes about overbuilt places.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 12, 2024

Its growth is hobbled by the collapse of an overbuilt real estate market, sagging consumer confidence and high rates of youth unemployment.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2023

It’s powerful and unhinged and overbuilt — a monument to the entropy of the postindustrial city, and the tenuous dance of its inhabitants.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2023

That suggested that Berkeley’s thirty-seven-inch machine was already overbuilt.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik