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Recent Examples of overgrow
The dog had what looked to be a tumor growing from its leg, masses across the body and nails that were overgrown, the warrant affidavit said.
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article A meadow on the Barona reservation overgrown with grass and invasive weeds hadn’t burned for decades.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Forests have become tinderboxes overgrown with trees, shrubs, and other fuels due to lack of maintenance and decades of fire suppression—to the point where 80 million acres are in need of restoration.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Indeed, overgrowing mutant clones in mice have been seen to revert to normal growth, as Jones and a co-author describe in the 2023 Annual Review of Cancer Biology.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 19 Feb. 2025
Listen to this article A meadow on the Barona reservation overgrown with grass and invasive weeds hadn’t burned for decades.
—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Feb. 2025
Forests have become tinderboxes overgrown with trees, shrubs, and other fuels due to lack of maintenance and decades of fire suppression—to the point where 80 million acres are in need of restoration.
—Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
Indeed, overgrowing mutant clones in mice have been seen to revert to normal growth, as Jones and a co-author describe in the 2023 Annual Review of Cancer Biology.
—Amber Dance, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrow
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It was produced by Google’s Veo 3, similar to extant bogus news anchor content already proliferating the Internet.—
Michael Ashley,
Forbes.com,
30 May 2025
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By now, Rubenstein should be seeing the light at what’s wrong with his new baseball team and that’s his general manager who’s proliferated the organization with analytical baseball neophytes.—
Bill Madden,
New York Daily News,
24 May 2025
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The video shows the steaming pool bubble ever so slightly before a bulb of steam and black mud shoots up from the geyser.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
4 June 2025
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When mortgage rates suddenly shot up after the Federal Reserve started its aggressive rate-hiking campaign to lower inflation in 2022, higher monthly payments had the effect of discouraging buyers and locking existing homeowners into their homes, exacerbating the supply shortage.—
Giulia Carbonaro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 June 2025
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Many are drought-tolerant, thrive in a variety of soil conditions, and are all-around low-maintenance plants.—
Lauren David,
Southern Living,
8 June 2025
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In 17 games with Daniels under center, McLaurin thrived by catching 82 passes for 1,096 yards and a career-high 13 touchdowns.—
Justin Grasso,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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On a grimy strip of North Graham Street, tucked between industrial supply stores, a hidden gem quietly flourished for over a year.—
Emiene Wright,
Charlotte Observer,
6 June 2025
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These militia-style groups flourished during Joe Biden’s Presidency, as border crossings increased and the right-wing media hyped anti-immigrant fears.—
Jessica Pishko,
New Yorker,
6 June 2025
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On June 6th at 12:42 a.m. EST, Venus enters Taurus, one of her favorite signs to luxuriate in.—
Dossé-Via Trenou,
Refinery29,
29 May 2025
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Its story is pure Final Fantasy, luxuriating in its melodrama; its systems come together like a greatest hits album of modern RPG design.—
Joshua Rivera,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2025
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“Overgrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrow. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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