overpass
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In October 2022, a rare protest at a highway overpass in Beijing prompted authorities to post security officials at dozens of city overpasses, particularly ahead of notable political events and anniversaries—a practice that continues today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
A concert under a 5 Freeway overpass by the L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
At the time of his death on Jan. 10, 2021, Villalba, 64, was living in a tent beneath a freeway overpass in Long Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
And at one point, several men are seen climbing on an overpass and removing what appears to be surveillance cameras attached to it.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
He made plans for the following day: he would venture farther toward downtown, he would revisit the I-10 overpass, he would check on the state of their office and warehouse over on Dublin Street.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
Parallel to the tramway, much of Alexandria's iconic corniche is now hidden behind overpasses, private businesses and beachside food courts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Other ways to alleviate congestion and delays at major interchanges include building more overpasses and underpasses that separate road and railroad tracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
Guards have been stationed 24 hours a day at the entrances to overpasses and bridges to prevent any protests, some of them in army uniforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
Soon after, police arrived on the scene as dozens of protesters walked onto the nearby 101 Freeway, while hundreds more crowded overpasses, waving flags and holding signs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2025
This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
"We could do a better job of getting pucks through. Maybe even shooting a little bit more. I think we overpassed at times."
From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022
They overpassed on some possessions, turning down layups and shooting 3’s instead.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The Coyotes made it a two-goal lead 11:57 into the second period when the Capitals’ fourth line overpassed on an odd-man rush, leading to a turnover.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2018
“I thought we overpassed the puck early in the game for sure,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
Lovett's was long and high, but at last Lovett's, too, was overpassed.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
The ten miles of road were overpast, the carriage left, the mountain climbed.
From Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' by Ruskin, John
Her eyes were open and the snowstorm overpast, leaving the sky clear, and all the westward heaven alight with the trailing, crackling, leaping curtains of the Aurora, brighter than she had ever seen them before.
From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
O Lord, our God, in Thee do we put our trust and under the shadow of Thy wings do we make our refuge until these calamities be overpast.
From The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] by Anonymous
True, things were greatly altered since we had agreed to go to Romford together, et nuptias facere; I had got no patron then, nor such prospects as I now had, these troubles once overpast.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
Go about his business--was there not sad, pressing business at Beamond's farm?--until the storm was overpast.
From Sophia A Romance by Weyman, Stanley John
And could stand to shoot the puck more rather than overpassing.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
“We’re actually probably overpassing laterally and sending pucks quickly through the slot that needed to just be put softly on net and make it chaos and a huge mess in front,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Spooked, their forwards started overpassing whenever they got deep into the Capitals’ zone.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2013
One bridge spans the Pacific from the State of Washington to Siberia, overpassing the island of Sakhalin en route.
From Time Magazine Archive
The time has come for conference, but not yet for any facile overpassing of the facts and reasons for historical separations.
From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by Cranage, D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset)
