Sentence examples for overpopulous from inspiring English sources

The word 'overpopulous' is not correct
The correct word would be 'overpopulated'. You can use it to describe a place or area that has too many people living in it. For example: "The city of Hong Kong is becoming increasingly overpopulated."

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Defects in transport occur either because the absorptive cells of the intestine lack certain enzymes, whether by congenital defect or by acquired disease, or because the cells are hindered in their work by other disease processes that infiltrate the tissues, disturb motility, permit bacteria to overpopulate the bowel, or block the pathways over which transport normally proceeds.

If in his other films he dared to overpopulate the screen, in Three Women he limits himself so severely that many of the actors seem to play more than one character; it might be said that many of the characters seem to contain more than one person.

By and large, their populations are dominated by the bankers, hedge-fund workers, lawyers and accountants who have moved with the financial-service firms that overpopulate the islands.

Hymenoptera, the most prevalent and successful of insect parasites, exert a profound, if subtle, control over populations of other insects and certain other arthropods groups that might otherwise overpopulate and thus upset their particular ecosystem.

A recent hypothesis is that the population of hares rises and falls due to a mixture of population pressure and predation: when hares overpopulate their environment, the population becomes stressed — the fact that the food supply is gobbled up certainly doesn't help — which can lead to decreased reproduction, resulting in a drop in next year's hare count.

Translocation is considered controversial by some scientists because of the risk that relocated species could overpopulate a new area and cause local organisms to become extinct.

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Recent collapses in parts of Mauritania, Chad, Sudan, Somalia and Kenya, to name a few, are taken by neo-Malthusians to have their roots in overpopulating marginal land, compounded by political failure.Yet such events also serve as reminders of how much can change.

But to do that, the book says, operators have to be good citizens and play by the rules: paying sales tax, reaching out to customer networks in regular locations and not "overfishing" — overpopulating vending neighborhoods.

The process of overpopulating a narrative with ostensibly pertinent facts uncovered by the author while in a clinical state of research rapture.

"These are people who have managed to live in the same place for 10,000 years without overpopulating it, without polluting it, without destroying its resources," says Guerra.

The standard story, as he sees it, insists that, first, the root cause of incarceration is the racist persecution of young black men for drug crimes, which overpopulates the prisons with nonviolent offenders.

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