Example Sentences

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This overcomes a key challenge facing Moore's Law that Intel sums up as: "You can make something smaller and smaller and smaller... until you can't".

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

Jean-Jacques Rousseau held that human reason prompts us to turn away from others’ suffering, for it is reason that overcomes the instinct of compassion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

But even here, her sincerity overcomes her weakness for sentimental flourishes, including Amine Bouhafa’s treacly score.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2026

Whether it’s the idea that misery loves company or that everyone endures and overcomes some sort of hardship, a glimmer of hope exists in a future that is unwritten.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2025

When sleep finally overcomes me, the morning light creeps through my narrow window and forces my weary eyes open again.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein