overgrow

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Recent Examples of overgrow If your jade plant is overgrown, prune it back gradually—just one or two branches at a time—over several seasons to get it under control again. Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Dec. 2025 There was no stream, though the place where one used to be was overgrown with thick, hard, tawny grass, like a scar. Literary Hub, 2 Dec. 2025 The visual opens with a scene of a grey, dystopian city in ruins, with thunder cracking and ominous black birds soaring over crumbling buildings overgrown with vegetation. Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 21 Nov. 2025 Farmhands in the distance are harvesting hay, not only to provide winter fodder for animals but also to destroy seedling trees and shrubs that might otherwise overgrow the area, while distant plumes of smoke suggest the possible burning of fields after harvest for the same reason. Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 7 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overgrow
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Verb
  • But as technology evolved and proliferated, privacy laws repeatedly fell short in protecting California’s students — at the same time that the federal government has tried to collect increasing amounts of personal information, Addis said.
    Adam Echelman, Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
  • These kinds of bans have proliferated.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • There's a reason, though, that this city has thrived in one way or another since the 14th century.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Every independent bookstore survives by nurturing that connection between audiences and art, and the Booksmith has thrived by making those invisible connections between writers and readers visible.
    Casey Cep, New Yorker, 20 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • More diverse voices, once overlooked in beauty, including Black women and other women of color, as well as the LGBTQ+ community, flourished during the era.
    Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 21 Feb. 2026
  • In the recent cold weather, my coonties, which are Florida native plants, and my society garlic plants, blooming with tiny purple flowers, all survived and are flourishing.
    Ticked Off, The Orlando Sentinel, 20 Feb. 2026

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“Overgrow.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overgrow. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.

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