overpower

Conductor Kelly Kuo captured the opera’s pacing but sometimes let the orchestra overpower the singers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Andreeva did not let that overwhelm her, eventually finding her rhythm and range from the baseline to overpower her increasingly frustrated opponent.

From BBC ● Jun. 6, 2026

He wanted to include his friends in the world of “Omakase” without letting the feature list overpower the project’s mystique.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

Often, it’s “winner takes all” in the tech industry, and large companies can overpower their competitors once they get to a certain market share.

From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026

The remembrance seemed for a while to overpower her, and she drooped and would have sunk down but for her husband’s sustaining arm.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

It has spread extensively across the north-west Highlands where it often overpowers native species.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

That magnificence overpowers everything that went before it, which includes fabulous dance, arresting puppetry and outstanding singing actors, including Kang Wang, as Monkey, an impressive juggler in his own right.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025

“I still think about everything that could happen. I just love the game so much that it overpowers it.”

From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024

The fresh, buttery flavor of the coconut milk enhances rather than overpowers the other flavors for a dish with a luscious texture and floral fragrance.

From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

For a while, the turkey overpowers him, but the smell of that dog can get to anything.

From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak

Try machine Zach Eckersley and Liam Marshall both scored twice as Wigan Warriors overpowered Toulouse Olympique 48-18 to make it 11 wins in a row to climb to second in Super League.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Were those chuckles overpowered by groans and eye rolls?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Flooding allowed the fish to escape into the Mississippi Basin, and to reproduce at rates that have overpowered native species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Japan Society presented avant-garde, multidisciplinary Japanese dancer Hiroaki Umeda’s dazzling multimedia “assimilating,” a display that well overpowered the Met’s attempts at video and movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mostly he was just ashamed that he’d gotten overpowered again, which Percy could relate to.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

It’s both salty and sweet, without feeling overpowering on either end of the flavor scale.

From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026

The urge, he later tells me, feels overpowering.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

If it doesn’t quite know what to do with the overpowering, Zurg-like menace of technology taking over life on this planet, nobody else does either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

At points during the third and fourth sets, he was hitting the ball 40mph faster than Djokovic on his groundstrokes, with his brutal striking overpowering the Serb at the back of court.

From BBC ● May 29, 2026

In the face of such overpowering numbers, what is the likelihood that only one ordinary star, the Sun, is accompanied by an inhabited planet?

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan