overabundance
noun
over·abun·dance
ˌō-vər-ə-ˈbən-dən(t)s 
plural overabundances
: a large surplus : excess
an overabundance of options
Between the women's movement and the first large wave of baby boomers, the career track was suddenly clogged with an overabundance of qualified people.—
Phillip Moffitt
Phillip Moffitt
overabundant
adjective
Overabundant use of livestock and chicken feed laced with antibiotics is a primary force behind the evolution of drug-resistant strains that then find their way into people.
—Wayne Biddle
Wayne Biddle
Overabundant elk ate trees down to their nubs, leaving beavers with no lumber for their dams, which, in turn, changed the flow of rivers.
—Sara Reardon
Sara Reardon
overabundantly
adverb
The meals … were mainly taken at the hotel and were included in the trip package. We were fed overabundantly three times a day.
—R. V. Denenberg
R. V. Denenberg
… Victor Hugo's 1831 novel, an overabundantly plotted melodrama set in 15th-century Paris.
—Tom Gliatto
Tom Gliatto
Examples of overabundance in a Sentence
an overabundance of desserts at a potluck dinner
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David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025
This is not only straightforward, but should be simple enough given an overabundance of Unova Pokémon during the upcoming event.
—Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025
Texas Kids The one club with an overabundance of rookies who could stick is the Texas Rangers.
—Dan Schlossberg, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
In 2024, the market shifted, leaving an overabundance of training compute and an undersupply of inference compute.
—Craig S. Smith, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for overabundance
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“Overabundance.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/overabundance. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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