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overhang

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


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Subway cars and burned-out streets don’t require much in the way of elaborate illustration for the overhang of menace to be felt.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Calls from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk to slow the rate of artificial-intelligence development are the latest overhang on fast-growing tech stocks.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026

There was a hint of funkiness in the field, albeit an overhang from Root's first spell as captain.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

He was somewhere under the overhang near the OIC’s office, and I couldn’t tell whether he’d heard me.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026

“We acknowledge these overhangs but note that Netflix has successfully navigated similar periods of skepticism,” she said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026

The gains have come despite increasing complexity with supply chain overhangs from the pandemic, changing environmental regulations, and the AI craze.

From Barron's ● May 21, 2026

Iran’s flag before the 1979 revolution — green, white and red with a lion and a rising sun — flutters from many overhangs.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022

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

From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022

At Bassin la Paix, in St. Benoit, an entire river courses over a 40-foot drop into a fishbowl-like swimming hole, throwing off so much spray that overhung basalt cliffs on shore are covered in ferns.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2019

She strained to look through the window of the study, but it was just a dark mullioned square overhung with creeper.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

“But once that technical overhanging is gone, I believe it’s going to trade at a premium, or at least at NAV.”

From Barron's ● May 1, 2026

Zumthor’s building design, which includes overhanging canopies, intentionally creates shade with outdoor events in mind, the executive explained.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

"These overhanging snow features can be difficult to spot, especially in poor visibility, and may collapse without warning," it said.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 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

In the afternoon she packed the fish traps with dried meat and suspended them from the overhanging branch.

From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer




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