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overall

[oh-ver-awl, oh-ver-awl] / ˈoʊ vərˈɔl, ˈoʊ vərˌɔl /




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While that is still a fraction of the company’s overall revenue, which totaled $303 billion in the four quarters ended in July, Chief Executive Jensen Huang says it will grow 10-fold within the next decade.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 29, 2026

English singer-songwriter Paul Heaton has scored his first solo UK number one album, his sixth overall.

From BBC Aug. 28, 2026

Medicare Advantage controls more than half of the overall Medicare market of roughly 69.6 million subscribers.

From MarketWatch Aug. 28, 2026

The overall difference this strategy made stands out quite starkly on Dog’s profile: Their most recent posts from the pre-Ryonex era, Aug. 6 and before, each got a few thousand likes.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

I hate to say it but they do smell, tho in the overall smell of the swamp it ain’t as bad as you’d think, so who knows how long she’s been here.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

Inside a waterfront factory, workers in hairnets and blue overalls are sorting freshly caught cod and haddock, and machines process the fish into fillets, mostly bound for Europe.

From BBC Aug. 26, 2026

Wearing overalls and a cap emblazoned with "Billionaire's Boys Club", he expresses profound regret over the seven years he has worked as a goon.

From Barron's Jul. 13, 2026

Another man was dressed in overalls in star-spangled colors while one couple wore large and seemingly uncomfortable bald eagle heads, topped by red, white and blue cloth stovepipe hats.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 23, 2026

His hands were bound with plastic cable ties and he was wearing orange overalls and a black face mask.

From BBC Mar. 31, 2026

Her curly hair stood straight up, and she wore miniature overalls that were rumpled.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia




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