overhang
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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
SpaceX’s stock just had its best day in weeks, with a closely watched overhang having now been lifted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
As it is, they hail the company’s resolution of complex, multistakeholder negotiations and removal of a long-running overhang on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
That in itself will be costly, but in theory the overhang and what is underneath it will be in United's footprint - and the club will be responsible for it.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
If the U.S. and Iran sign a peace deal, these overhangs could disappear as quickly as they arrived.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 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
P&G is the steadier but more expensive option, while Kimberly-Clark offers a cheaper entry point after its Kenvue deal rattled investors worried about deal risk and potential legal overhangs tied to consumer-health brands like Tylenol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
In stock markets, these overhangs usually run six to 18 months after lockups end.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 17, 2025
I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
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
“From here, it only gets better,” Miller said, looking upstream at the sparkling river, overhung with a deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
Not far from the falls of Nimrodel they found a cluster of trees, some of which overhung the stream.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
That was the central question overhanging CinemaCon 2024, the annual convention bringing together Hollywood studios and multiplex operators in Las Vegas this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The sunlight glowed through the blanket between the shadows of overhanging trees while Fletcher made conversation with his horses.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
