overfilled

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"The criminal statutes cited in this case are pretty broad and could apply to millions of people who don't file a return for one reason or another... prisons could, theoretically, be overfilled with tax criminals."

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

But after the visit, they would “go right back to overfilled pods and lack of staff and equipment to handle the situation.”

From Washington Times • May 5, 2023

“Our emergency departments are overfilled and we have patients in every bed. Now an ominous question looms: Will you be able to get care from your local community hospital without delay? Today, that is uncertain.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021

It’s the one room in this otherwise impeccably hung exhibition that feels overfilled.

From New York Times • Mar. 5, 2020

It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot