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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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In 2002, Greenville’s longtime mayor, Knox White, removed a highway overpass to reveal the waterfall from the Reedy River that flows through downtown and make way for a park.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

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

Responding officers caught up to Garcia as he was walking through traffic on Normandie Avenue underneath the 10 Freeway overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Dashcam video captured the dramatic moment a lorry slammed into an overpass in New York.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

They were getting close to Laguna, crossing the overpass by New Laguna; Leroy shifted into second gear for the hill.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

Bass and Raman also debated the merits of a city law that prohibits homeless encampments near schools, daycare centers and “sensitive” locations, such as libraries and freeway overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 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

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses.

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 rudimental conceptions have been distanced; the original limitations have been overpassed.

From The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity by Octavius Brooks Frothingham

But when the first emotion of surprise was overpast, a dogged resolution succeeded to it and with it a determination to put, if need be, as bold a face upon the matter as we could.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

Soon after these vigilants had gone down the ladder again, the Bonadventure began to move, and the bags of guano were a tyranny that is overpast.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden

It soon grew apparent, now that the meridian of poor Cynthia's wrath was overpast, that the child would have to pay the price of it.

From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith

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

He was beyond the reach of earthly solicitude—the swimming and buffeting, the toil and anxiety, were forever overpast; his feet already touched the solid ground.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

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

He deemed all real knowledge of a commencement inaccessible to us, and the inquiry into it an overpassing of the essential limits of our mental faculties.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill


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