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Recent Examples of infest
Ants will swarm plants that are infested with spider mites, cabbage loopers, root maggots, beetle grubs, scale, mealybugs, ticks, or other pests that ants feed on.
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
Dance clips infested Nico Nico Douga and fans outlined the steps so everyone could bop along.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 14 May 2025
Plants infested with mealybugs usually become weakened and display wrinkled, shriveled leaves.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
There was even a collaboration with Hello Kitty featuring Ito’s monstrous Tomie, a creature who resembles a pretty girl but can grow a copy of herself from her smallest part and infest her victims.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
Dance clips infested Nico Nico Douga and fans outlined the steps so everyone could bop along.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 14 May 2025
Plants infested with mealybugs usually become weakened and display wrinkled, shriveled leaves.
—Sheryl Geerts, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
There was even a collaboration with Hello Kitty featuring Ito’s monstrous Tomie, a creature who resembles a pretty girl but can grow a copy of herself from her smallest part and infest her victims.
—Sam Thielman, New York Times, 21 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infest
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Pachuca’s failure plagued Salzburg as well, with the Austrian side needing a boost after things turned for the worse against Real Madrid, only to be denied – despite their social media admin’s best pleas.—
Liam Twomey,
New York Times,
27 June 2025
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The last few projects have been plagued by delays and massive cost overruns.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
27 June 2025
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About 20% of those infected will develop a fever, headache, body aches, joint pains, vomiting, diarrhea or rash.—
Michelle Mullins,
Chicago Tribune,
30 June 2025
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By the end of that film, a batch of the infected had made it to France, implying that the virus would soon overtake the European continent and the rest of the world.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
25 June 2025
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Would powerful cities like New York and Chicago overrun states without large industrial centers?—
Lee Habeeb,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 June 2025
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Protestors argue the city is being overrun with tourism while steadily depopulating, and needs public services and housing, not VIPs and over-tourism.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
25 June 2025
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In particular, website owners and SEO experts wanted to know how Cloudflare planned to block Google's bot from scraping sites to fuel AI overviews without risking blocking the same bot from crawling for valuable search engine placements.—
ArsTechnica,
ArsTechnica,
9 July 2025
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Both are unable, under any circumstances, to resist crawling under someone doing a downward-facing dog.—
Erika Sjule,
New Yorker,
8 July 2025
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This can overwhelm analysts and lead to alert fatigue.—
Bhupendra Singh,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
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Among other things, a lack of staff hampered the State Emergency Response Team’s ability to maintain a 24-hour operation that was supposed to support local and county officials who were overwhelmed by the massive storm.—
Jennifer Berry Hawes,
ProPublica,
27 June 2025
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“Infest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infest. Accessed 12 Jul. 2025.
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