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  • verb Present participle of overbreed.

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Examples

  • According to Dan, killing people with pollution is the work of an "overbreeding," "Neocon right-wing hypocrite" who kills "in the name of God."

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED 2009

  • They were already doing all they could to save an ever-increasing number of animals whom the public has essentially discarded by overbreeding, under-spaying, never neutering, and rarely vaccinating.

    Gary Weitzman, DVM: Saving Puppies DVM Gary Weitzman 2011

  • They were already doing all they could to save an ever-increasing number of animals whom the public has essentially discarded by overbreeding, under-spaying, never neutering, and rarely vaccinating.

    Gary Weitzman, DVM: Saving Puppies DVM Gary Weitzman 2011

  • They were already doing all they could to save an ever-increasing number of animals whom the public has essentially discarded by overbreeding, under-spaying, never neutering, and rarely vaccinating.

    Gary Weitzman, DVM: Saving Puppies DVM Gary Weitzman 2011

  • And in West Virginia, the Charleston Gazette editorializes about a "human swarm" that is "overbreeding" in a way that "prosperous, well-educated families" from the developed world do not.

    And Baby Makes Seven Billion William McGurn 2011

  • Or is this an issue less about pit bulls and more about overpopulation due to overbreeding?

    Should Pit Bulls Be Banned? The Huffington Post 2011

  • They were already doing all they could to save an ever-increasing number of animals whom the public has essentially discarded by overbreeding, under-spaying, never neutering, and rarely vaccinating.

    Gary Weitzman, DVM: Saving Puppies DVM Gary Weitzman 2011

  • And speaking of Idiocracy, the one problem I had with it was its mechanism of idiocy — basically an argument about the overbreeding of low quality characters.

    Matthew Yglesias » Jessica Valenti on Anti-Feminists and So-Called “Hook-up Culture” 2009

  • Because if men are left to go on in the way they are going, all the trees and animals and grains will be obliterated in an orgy of violent conflict and overbreeding.

    What does feminism mean for you? « Gender Across Borders 2010

  • Certainly, but rapacious and overbreeding for their ecological niche.

    ubiquitous bunnies eddvick 2008

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