overpopulated

Example Sentences

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Whether you are a grasshopper or a bird or a human, if you start destroying the environment in which you live, then you are overpopulated.

From Salon • Nov. 30, 2024

“We’re overpopulated now and with schools and everything else, it’s just a difficult time.”

From Seattle Times • Feb. 14, 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

"Ours is an overpopulated country and our people are already suffering."

From BBC • May 15, 2023

He says Toronto is getting overpopulated, and also polluted.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood