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overcome

[oh-ver-kuhm] / ˌoʊ vərˈkʌm /




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Few ballet stars make it past 40 before hanging up their pumps and switching to teaching, overcome by the immense physical, mental and artistic demands of the art form.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 22, 2026

To overcome this tradeoff, the MIT researchers developed antennas with reduced crosstalk that can be positioned close together without strongly coupling.

From Science Daily Jul. 22, 2026

But these personal limitations introduce dramatic challenges that aren’t easy to overcome.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

One of the attackers who helped Argentina overcome England in their semi-final, Alvarez has flourished at Atletico Madrid since his 2024 move from Manchester City.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

In the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge until these calamities shall be overcome.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

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

"This technology overcomes the longstanding scaling bottleneck caused by size effects through the combination of induced crystallization and buried interface restoration," said Prof. Shuping Pang.

From Science Daily Mar. 1, 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

“If you set the surge up high enough, you’ll be glad you’re awake; that’s the whole point. At setting C it overcomes the threshold barring consciousness, as it does for me.”

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

It said the school leaned on how applicants answered “hardship” questions — which ask students how they overcame disadvantages — as a proxy for race.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 20, 2026

Thomas Tuchel's side overcame Norway 2-1 after extra time to book their place in the semi-final at Atlanta Stadium, which will be broadcast live on BBC One and BBC iPlayer.

From BBC Jul. 15, 2026

The researchers overcame the problem by first creating a larger, more flexible ring.

From Science Daily Jul. 6, 2026

The market overcame those headwinds, thanks to highflying chip stocks that are the biggest AI winners of the moment, as well as confidence that American corporations will continue to churn out higher profits.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 30, 2026

The fair boy said this solemnly; but then the delight of a realized ambition overcame him.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

Meanwhile, Gerwyn Price survived a scare before overcoming Germany's Martin Schindler 11-9.

From BBC Jul. 20, 2026

Aguilar, 43, had amassed a sizable following as an influencer on Instagram and YouTube, where he spoke of overcoming poverty and addiction before creating a chain of gyms called Self Made Training Facility.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 11, 2026

Just 12 years later, the Norsemen administered another hammer blow to English soccer’s fragile psyche, overcoming the Three Lions 2-0 in a 1993 qualifying game that contributed to England missing the 1994 World Cup entirely.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 11, 2026

The results suggest that future improvements depend primarily on advances in materials science rather than overcoming an unavoidable law of nature.

From Science Daily Jul. 2, 2026

He would hurl himself onto the street, overcoming every obstacle in his path, and remain at large for two or three days.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende




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