overhang
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However, policy overhang remains as they could be added to the Federal Communications Commission’s Covered List, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026
Subway cars and burned-out streets don’t require much in the way of elaborate illustration for the overhang of menace to be felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
Wednesday’s development “significantly addresses” the overhang of youth-safety lawsuits over Meta’s stock, Mahaney wrote in a note.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026
There was a hint of funkiness in the field, albeit an overhang from Root's first spell as captain.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
The new jack, never used and bright with factory paint, was stiff and unruly, and it was not designed for the overhang of Rocinante.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
“We acknowledge these overhangs but note that Netflix has successfully navigated similar periods of skepticism,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
Iran’s flag before the 1979 revolution — green, white and red with a lion and a rising sun — flutters from many overhangs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
“While we have many questions surrounding the implementation of this relationship, and the companies’ pricing strategies going forward, this deal would seem to remove the biggest near-term overhangs on the shares,” Hill wrote.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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Note how the wheels of the S5 do not extend to the vertical edge of the wheel wells but are rather overhung slightly by the wheel arches, making them look smaller—and weaker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026
It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Nearby stood a crumbling amphitheater that served as a community kitchen, and near that a playground overhung by a latticework of improvised power lines.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
Heather and trees and bracken scrambled down and overhung the banks, or sprawled out over the surface.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
But the canal authorities don’t allow overhanging cargo that could hit infrastructure such as light poles at the waterway’s locks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
The goats have also attacked the neighbors and climbed on top of their car in a shared driveway to eat the leaves off an overhanging tree, Paszterko wrote in his Aug. 7 filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
The cave has a skylight on the Moon’s surface, leading down to vertical and overhanging walls, and a sloping floor that might extend further underground.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
It worked, but the river curved almost constantly, moving through small swamps and beneath overhanging trees so thick it seemed to be a jungle, and he was constantly fighting the raft.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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