overpopulated
Example Sentences
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"If you were drawing up a country from scratch, a well-educated, well-resourced, not overpopulated country would be what you would want, right? So, I think Canada has all those things, all those features," he said.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
One thing stood out: The roots of their sentiments lay in concerns that the United States has become overpopulated.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
That’s the way nature designed it and how it worked for thousands of years until humans mucked it up — mostly as we overpopulated California after World War II.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2024
Instead of moving 90,000 residents out of the overpopulated district and into the underpopulated one, the state swapped more than 50,000 residents into the overpopulated district and moved 140,000 residents out of it.
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2023
Instead, his appearance was absurd—the empty tract of his chin was at the expense of a worried, overpopulated forehead.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
