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overcome

[oh-ver-kuhm] / ˌoʊ vərˈkʌm /




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"We must continue to stand together to fight this... I have no doubt in my mind we will overcome," he told a recent prayer meeting for political prisoners.

From Barron's

“All the fundamental hurdles we would have talked about three years ago, we’ve overcome,” said Riedel, who is now executive vice president for aviation and future mobility at Metropolis Technologies, an artificial-intelligence infrastructure startup.

From The Wall Street Journal

He added that "it is particularly meaningful in that it simultaneously overcomes the key limitations of existing CAR-macrophage therapies -- delivery efficiency and the immunosuppressive tumor environment."

From Science Daily

Technical advances including improved chips have helped overcome early problems with poor battery life, buggy software, and stumbling conversations that tainted early pendant models.

From Barron's

Fungi without these genes were much less successful at infecting bark beetles, showing that the detoxification process is critical for overcoming the beetles' chemical defenses.

From Science Daily