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is overrunning

  • present progressive of overrun (3rd person singular).

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Climate analyst Ed King is monitoring how far the conference is overrunning:

From The Guardian Nov. 13, 2021

Even when a dam project is overrunning and costs are soaring, governments are reluctant to scrap them he points out.

From BBC Mar. 11, 2014

Another plant is overrunning parts of the Southwest, including the Grand Canyon.

From Time Magazine Archive

The library extends through three stories, and is overrunning with its twenty-six thousand books and thirteen thousand pamphlets; large and valuable additions have been made to its shelves within a few years.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 by Various