overpowered
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Italian midfielder Tonali cost £100m from Newcastle United, but was utterly outshone and overpowered by Brentford's record buy Mamadou Sangare, who was the game's outstanding performer.
From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2026
But market jitters over sky-high AI spending without a path to good returns overpowered the company’s better-than-forecast financial performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Were those chuckles overpowered by groans and eye rolls?
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 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
A sudden image of her own mother and all that she had lost overpowered Amari for a moment.
From "Copper Sun" by Sharon M. Draper
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