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Recent Examples of overgrow
Trash in water is soon overgrown by algae and bacteria.
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David Bressan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
The grass has overgrown and is covered with trees and bushes.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 25 July 2025
At least one city program also ignited robust neighborhood criticism when 133 trees in the leafy Oakmont subdivision were razed last summer in a city-wide drive to remove trees whose roots were overgrown.
—John Tuohy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Its iron gates remained open and unguarded, the courtyard overgrown and prowled by dogs.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2025
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David Bressan, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025
The grass has overgrown and is covered with trees and bushes.
—Jay Harris, New York Times, 25 July 2025
At least one city program also ignited robust neighborhood criticism when 133 trees in the leafy Oakmont subdivision were razed last summer in a city-wide drive to remove trees whose roots were overgrown.
—John Tuohy, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
Its iron gates remained open and unguarded, the courtyard overgrown and prowled by dogs.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 13 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrow
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Feral goats once proliferated (Captain Cook brought them in 1773).—
Jeff Chu,
Travel + Leisure,
12 Aug. 2025
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Since 2009, climate change research has proliferated.—
Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
29 July 2025
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In some of the eruptions, lava was seen shooting up to 1,000 feet from the volcano's vent.—
Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
20 Aug. 2025
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And how, in a market where the new benchmark for a top-six rotation player seems to have shot up to £55million ($74.5m), did City only pay about £45m for Reijnders this summer?—
Jordan Campbell,
New York Times,
18 Aug. 2025
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Break Financial Worries Into Manageable Actions Fear thrives in the unknown, but financial clarity kills it.—
Expert Panel®,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
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While this was typically Maddison’s role in the second half of last season, what Eze brings as a chance-creator might be more comparable to the role Kulusevski thrived in during the first half of last term.—
Elias Burke,
New York Times,
20 Aug. 2025
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The initiative began serving nearly 500 families and flourished, with 92% of the babies born full-term and 96% born at a healthy birth rate in the Strong Babies program, outpacing the average rates for Nashville as a whole.—
Melissa Brown,
The Tennessean,
21 Aug. 2025
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Lali is cheerful and spry, with a surfeit of energy—sprinting for no reason, flourishing her movements, meowing ten times in a row.—
Tao Lin,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Enjoy Venus in Cancer by embracing your inner crab tendencies by luxuriating by a pool or at the beach, and feel the refreshing optimism and emotional reset!—
Lisa Stardust,
Refinery29,
30 July 2025
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Sony and Microsoft and the PC world can keep playing the cutting-edge hardware competition while Nintendo luxuriates in its bizarre boutique silo, unbothered, moisturized, in its lane, consistently content with winning its own solo race.—
Mitch Wallace,
Forbes.com,
28 July 2025
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“Overgrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrow. Accessed 3 Sep. 2025.
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