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Recent Examples of overcrowded
This has forced many families to collect water from unsafe and contaminated sources, increasing the risk of cholera and other deadly waterborne diseases, especially in overcrowded neighborhoods and displacement sites.
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Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Each year the monsoon causes chaos across Mumbai, particularly for commuters travelling on its hectic, overcrowded public transport system.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
After California’s prisons became so overcrowded during the 1990s, a U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the state to reduce its inmate count led to a series of legislative reforms, including the resentencing law that allowed the brothers to have their case reconsidered in court.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The vote for the student zoning was delayed after many parents and community members objected to a plan that would move around 100 elementary students at Marie G. Davis School in southwest Charlotte to the already overcrowded Dilworth Elementary for the 2025-26 school year.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
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Maryanne Murray Buechner, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Each year the monsoon causes chaos across Mumbai, particularly for commuters travelling on its hectic, overcrowded public transport system.
—Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 27 May 2025
After California’s prisons became so overcrowded during the 1990s, a U.S. Supreme Court decision ordering the state to reduce its inmate count led to a series of legislative reforms, including the resentencing law that allowed the brothers to have their case reconsidered in court.
—Tim Arango, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The vote for the student zoning was delayed after many parents and community members objected to a plan that would move around 100 elementary students at Marie G. Davis School in southwest Charlotte to the already overcrowded Dilworth Elementary for the 2025-26 school year.
—Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overcrowded
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Polling has shown that Rep. Mikie Sherrill, a former Navy helicopter pilot who represents the state's 11th Congressional District, leads the crowded Democratic field, but the race could still be anyone’s to win.—
Brittany Shepherd,
ABC News,
10 June 2025
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The warm-water experiences tend to be the most crowded, popular for their respiratory and joint pain relief.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
9 June 2025
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