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overpass

[oh-ver-pas, -pahs, oh-ver-pas, -pahs] / ˈoʊ vərˌpæs, -ˌpɑs, ˌoʊ vərˈpæs, -ˈpɑs /
NOUN
bridge
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Early on, the braking mechanism was harsh and the trucks sometimes unexpectedly stopped when approaching an overpass.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026

As for Arnold, he lived with his grandparents in an old boarding house under a freeway overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

The video shows a spray of debris flying as the truck struck the overpass, tipped over, and skidded on its side.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

Kevin Paz, who has been sleeping on the 51st Street overpass in South L.A., said he used to live a few blocks away.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

The Saturn Rings Roundabout Motel was located beneath an overpass on Route 22.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

Despite those efforts, many of the overpasses and side streets still have encampments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026

They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in the country.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026

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

There are no overpasses or power cables in sight.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

He’d been hearing about the New Orleanians stranded under highway overpasses, and he didn’t want to be among them.

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

The thin trickle of water had been overpassed, churned, trampled into mire and dirt, by half the army, horse and foot.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

He on his part would pass Chapuys without notice till the present tyranny was overpast.

From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude

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 Stanley J. Weyman

Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

From History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar

They began by digging a shaft, the mouth of which they masked with brushwood, and a hole at the bottom in which they could cower with their families until the tyranny was overpast.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent

The tyranny of that error, however, is now well-nigh overpast.

From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons

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

In this respect the German act differs from the English act, which allows no such automatic statutory power of overpassing the limit of issue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various


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