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Recent Examples of overgrow
In many other neighborhoods, vacant houses, overgrown lots and the lack of businesses remind people of a disaster that happened before many of them were born.
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Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 24 Aug. 2025
Cutting conservation programs and abandoning fire-smart management will leave forests overgrown and ready to burn — with wildfires too big and too hot.
—Tracy Stone-Manning, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
That land would be claimed, never to be overgrown and hidden again.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Range said in that time, the park had overgrown with exotic flora and fauna.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
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Marisa Peñaloza, NPR, 24 Aug. 2025
Cutting conservation programs and abandoning fire-smart management will leave forests overgrown and ready to burn — with wildfires too big and too hot.
—Tracy Stone-Manning, Denver Post, 19 Aug. 2025
That land would be claimed, never to be overgrown and hidden again.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 17 Aug. 2025
Range said in that time, the park had overgrown with exotic flora and fauna.
—Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overgrow
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The slaying of the serpent was a mythological superspreader, mutating and proliferating across the Indo-European world and beyond.—
Manvir Singh,
New Yorker,
13 Oct. 2025
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Picture a proliferating mound that spreads or spills or drapes down and around and is covered with probably a thousand miniature pinkish-white daisies.—
Joshua Siskin,
Oc Register,
11 Oct. 2025
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In her 2013 book Braiding Sweetgrass, Potawatomi botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer explained that these crops thrive together because maize provides a trellis-like framework for nitrogen-fixing beans to grow on while the low-lying squash provides a productive ground cover crop.—
JSTOR Daily,
JSTOR Daily,
14 Oct. 2025
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The impact is a culture where collaboration thrives, creativity is respected and results are built on mutual confidence.—
Rolling Stone Culture Council,
Rolling Stone,
13 Oct. 2025
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Other ‘outsiders’ who briefly flourished — Australia, Ghana, Japan, Mexico, Senegal — had a good generation of players rather than transforming into one of the elite.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
11 Oct. 2025
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The spice was central to the Dune universe, allowing trade to flourish and planets to prosper.—
Lim Hui Jie,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
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Between activities, guests luxuriate in comfortable rooms or spacious cabins kitted out with robes, plush bedding, and woodsy decor touches.—
Lisa Kadane,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Oct. 2025
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The fabric glides against the skin, drapes beautifully, and gives off a shimmery, pearl-like luster worthy of a duchess, or at least someone who truly luxuriates at home.—
Brigitt Earley,
Glamour,
22 Sep. 2025
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“Overgrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrow. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
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