overcome

Example Sentences

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"It must be very difficult to overcome that shyness or thinking, 'maybe I am not good enough'," she said.

From BBC

For US energy companies, however, there are huge practical difficulties to be overcome.

From BBC

It can take at least three years to overcome the identity vacuum, several veteran retirees have told me.

From The Wall Street Journal

The USA men's ice hockey team had to fight before overcoming Denmark 6-3 on Saturday as they kept their bid for a first Olympic gold since 1980 on track.

From Barron's

From there, police believe they overcame several security systems and made their way into an archive room next to the vault, in the bank's basement.

From BBC