overcome
Example Sentences
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Those can be overcome with Starship, a mega-rocket that SpaceX said can carry more than four times as much payload to low-Earth orbit as the Falcon 9.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
SpaceX will have to overcome history to perform well.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
J&J said the Firelink platform is a novel approach to overcome limitations of existing treatments by delivering a highly selective protein degrader to tumor cells, while avoiding healthy cells.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 8, 2026
"South Africa has overcome far greater challenges than this. We have overcome division. We have overcome conflict. We have overcome injustice. We will overcome this challenge too."
From BBC • Jun. 7, 2026
I was too overcome to speak, but it didn’t matter, because he was the one with the story this time.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
Vocabulary lists containing overcome
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