overhang
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“Need for additional financing remains a key overhang for sentiment, especially given the recent neocloud debt saga,” Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas wrote in a Monday note to clients.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 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
There was a hint of funkiness in the field, albeit an overhang from Root's first spell as captain.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
Concerns include uncertainty around telecom M&A activity, the overhang from long-term contract disputes, potential satellite-coverage competition and the renewed impact from interest rates, they say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
They inched over to the craggy overhang and, standing side by side, with Babi in the middle, gazed down on the valley.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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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
Under the proposal, residents would not be allowed to plant anything within a 1-foot “Safety Zone” around the home, including beneath roof overhangs; two feet from windows, vents and doors and five feet from decks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
Remaining overhangs on branded GLP-1 uptake, namely injectable supply and pricing dynamics, “were largely resolved last year,” analysts wrote in a lengthy research note on Tuesday.
From Barron's ● Apr. 7, 2026
It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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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
Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
Just above the bridge, between it and a thorn bush upstream, was a ledge of turf which overhung the water.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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“But once that technical overhanging is gone, I believe it’s going to trade at a premium, or at least at NAV.”
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
"Unfortunately, due to where she was, we were unable to airlift her out due to the length and the wind conditions and the overhanging trees, so winching out wasn't an option."
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 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
In that instant, a hideous head struck out of the overhanging straw—those unblinking eyes, those fatal fangs.
From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck
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