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overbear

[oh-ver-bair] / ˌoʊ vərˈbɛər /










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But in the wrong hands, whether that is an overbearing state or a foreign power, the information could be used for something more nefarious.

From BBC

Within a year, Shockley’s overbearing management style — and a tendency to claim other people’s work as his own — prompted Dr. Moore and seven other scientists to bolt.

From Washington Post

One defender of the group fumed that Korea had been suffering from overbearing Chinese “for 3,000 years.”

From Washington Times

It was the compounding of many years of lovingly overbearing mothering and the sense that, in my mid-20s, I still saw the world through her eyes and directed my life by her approval.

From Washington Post

M&S chairman Archie Norman has written to the foreign secretary to warn that labelling would mean "overbearing and prohibitive costs" for retailers.

From BBC