: the condition of having a population so dense as to cause environmental deterioration, an impaired quality of life, or a population crash
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Examples of overpopulation in a Sentence
He is studying the problem of deer overpopulation.
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What Bezos seems to be getting at is that, with a population that is rapidly escalating and an unquenchable demand for energy, humanity is at risk of overpopulation and resource depletion.
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Greg Kingsley lives in Cleveland but knows all about our pet overpopulation problems and the efforts to save the lives of dogs and cats in San Antonio.
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Jokes aside, what Thanos is worried about — overpopulation and resource scarcity — is very much a concern outside of the Marvel Universe as well.
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Re-establishing cougar numbers could reduce deer overpopulation.
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The deaths also underscore an overpopulation of free-roaming horses, a problem entangled in competing interests, scarcity of resources and tribal cultural values.
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The film, also starring Christoph Waltz, Jason Sudeikis and Neil Patrick Harris, centers around a society riddled with overpopulation that resorts to shrinking humans to five-inches tall in order to create more space.
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With such overpopulation, having herds of free-roaming horses has become expensive.
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The plan has many holes in it, but Thanos isn’t the first to concern himself with overpopulation and the depletion of resources.
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First Known Use of overpopulation
1802
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: the condition of having too many people living in a certain area
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