overhang
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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
By comparison, a conventional 4-base overhang produced an efficiency of only 8%, giving the new approach a fivefold advantage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Al-Louh, his wife and six children, living under the overhang of a partially destroyed building, the Yellow Line has imposed its own schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Mami let go our hands and ran under the roof overhang, where water fell in a thick stream.
From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago
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
“We do not expect these debates to resolve within the course of next year, with looming overhangs potentially sidelining investors in many cases,” Zelnick said in a Jan. 6 research note.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Within the enclosure there weren’t any caves or rock overhangs to shelter under.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
Betsy Aurnou, climbing with wraparound shades and fabric completely covering her face, carried Fritos and Vitalyte, and referred to the occasional slivers of shadow beneath overhung cliffs as “shade opportunities.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
It’s 3:55 p.m. and Elena Mullins, a Baroque dancer, is twirling in the center of a living room of a home surrounded by overhung trees in the Northwest DC neighborhood of Barnaby Woods.
From Washington Post ● May 6, 2016
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
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
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 willow tree overhanging the brook shielded us from all eyes, and the maze kept our secrets.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
