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overhang

[oh-ver-hang, oh-ver-hang] / ˌoʊ vərˈhæŋ, ˈoʊ vərˌhæŋ /


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Using an 18-base overhang, the researchers achieved a joining efficiency of 44%.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

“Record output and the storage overhang are simply overpowering whatever residual weather-driven power burn is still left in the late-summer schedule,” Phil Flynn of Price Futures Group says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 18, 2026

For Al-Louh, his wife and six children, living under the overhang of a partially destroyed building, the Yellow Line has imposed its own schedule.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

“But this time, with the overhang of the war, we think hedge funds might be continuing to blow up and their liquidation may not be completely over, so that’s going to create volatility.”

From MarketWatch Aug. 1, 2026

She sat in the shade of the willows that grew beside the pool, below the overhang of the cliff.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Under the proposal, residents would not be allowed to plant anything within a 1-foot “Safety Zone” around the home, including beneath roof overhangs; two feet from windows, vents and doors and five feet from decks.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 2026

Remaining overhangs on branded GLP-1 uptake, namely injectable supply and pricing dynamics, “were largely resolved last year,” analysts wrote in a lengthy research note on Tuesday.

From Barron's Apr. 7, 2026

Oracle has also managed to clear overhangs about its AI-funding plans with its announcement last month of a $50 billion debt-and-equity raise for 2026.

From MarketWatch Mar. 11, 2026

It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.

From Scientific American Apr. 1, 2022

It’s 3:55 p.m. and Elena Mullins, a Baroque dancer, is twirling in the center of a living room of a home surrounded by overhung trees in the Northwest DC neighborhood of Barnaby Woods. 

From Washington Post May 6, 2016

Carefully installed — thankfully not overhung — the handful of works here look almost like tapestries instead of paintings.

From New York Times Apr. 16, 2015

The day was overhung with a gloomy mist.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

A dog has been rescued after falling through an overhanging ledge of snow and spending a wintry night out on a mountain in the Highlands.

From BBC Feb. 17, 2026

Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.

From Barron's Jan. 2, 2026

But the canal authorities don’t allow overhanging cargo that could hit infrastructure such as light poles at the waterway’s locks.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 28, 2025

The goats have also attacked the neighbors and climbed on top of their car in a shared driveway to eat the leaves off an overhanging tree, Paszterko wrote in his Aug. 7 filing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 26, 2024

This intersection Willem and I have chosen—this overhanging awning and this plaster cow—it's more than one kilometer from the Muiderpoort station.

From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse




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