overhang
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Technology analyst Dan Ives, at investment bank Yorkville Ives, said the crisis will at the very least spark multiple congressional inquiries and "create an overhang on the stock for a myriad of reasons".
From Barron's ● Nov. 9, 2026
“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
However, policy overhang remains as they could be added to the Federal Communications Commission’s Covered List, the analysts say.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 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
Outside the gym, a shiny solar overhang shields a bunch of steel-blue tables in tidy rows.
From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée
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The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 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
Talk of tariffs and aggressive drug-pricing regulation faded, giving way to headline-grabbing price deals between the White House and drugmakers that lifted two of the biggest policy overhangs on pharmaceutical stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 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
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
At Bassin la Paix, in St. Benoit, an entire river courses over a 40-foot drop into a fishbowl-like swimming hole, throwing off so much spray that overhung basalt cliffs on shore are covered in ferns.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2019
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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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
“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
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
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
It was an overcast autumn afternoon, and there was no one about except for a group of donors clustered under the overhanging roof of the recreation building.
From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro
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