Examples of overspill in a Sentence

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Recent Examples on the Web The zoonotic origin of SARS-CoV-1 has been firmly established by research that also showed that the bat sarbecoviruses pose a clear and present danger of pandemic overspill from bats to humans. — Stephan Lewandowsky, Scientific American, 16 Feb. 2022 To my right, a frozen waterfall of black lava paved a steep slope—apparently, this was overspill from a lava field farther uphill. — Heidi Julavit, The New Yorker, 16 Aug. 2021 Broemmer was also responsible for overseeing the construction of an overspill hospital in an exhibition center in Berlin during the first wave of the pandemic last spring, which cost around $40 million but has not taken in a single patient. — Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2020 That is unlikely to help much, since courts would still require overspill space for observers and jury deliberations. — The Economist, 11 June 2020 Enterprise customers – big firms that use external office space for staffing overspill – might also chose to bring more of their employees back in-house, notes the Fitch ratings agency. — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2019 Arewa, a local term for the northern part of Nigeria, could not evade the global overspill of the #MeToo movement that had taken off from the United States. — Fakhrriyyah Hashim, Quartz Africa, 22 July 2019 Most pointed out that journalism shouldn't be an overspill for long-standing political rivalry. — Isobel Thompson, The Hive, 3 May 2017 See More

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