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

But the city became overbuilt and the housing boom went bust in the mid-1960s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2025

But it overbuilt — and later began shuttering projects and renting out space in some of its warehouses.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 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

On the immediate local front, reports showed that rental rates for apartments in Odessa had dropped 10 percent and occupancy rates 8 percent, boding disaster for a market that was woefully overbuilt from the boom.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger