overhang
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Still, the allegations against Huang are “negative” for the company, he said, and at the least, “the overhang is going to be around for a while.”
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 9, 2026
Yorkville Ives analysts said the Nvidia probe will likely spark congressional inquiries and create an overhang on the company’s stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
But if it also wins 13 electorate races, then parliament creates an extra, overhang seat for it, pushing up its total to 121.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 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 something under the overhang where she’d been lying.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The gains have come despite increasing complexity with supply chain overhangs from the pandemic, changing environmental regulations, and the AI craze.
From Barron's ● May 21, 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
“If regulatory overhangs abate and double-digit tech earnings materialise, a multi-year catch-up is possible,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2025
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
We walked to a fork in the path, a crossroads overhung with massive slabs of rock that seemed poised to crush us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
She strained to look through the window of the study, but it was just a dark mullioned square overhung with creeper.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
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In the spring, the icefall doctors had finally managed to open the Khumbu Icefall section, after a massive overhanging glacial chunk, called a serac, blocked the path for much of the early climbing season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
A dog has been rescued after falling through an overhanging ledge of snow and spending a wintry night out on a mountain in the Highlands.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
That was the central question overhanging CinemaCon 2024, the annual convention bringing together Hollywood studios and multiplex operators in Las Vegas this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Salêve?
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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