overcome
Example Sentences
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"This will overcome finally some of the limitations that are fundamentally inherent to this hardware that we are using at the moment."
From BBC • May 23, 2026
Connectivity infrastructure in space is designed to help everyone on Earth have access to education, healthcare, entertainment, and communications, and to enable people to overcome many traditional limits, such as physical and political borders.
From Barron's • May 23, 2026
Using melanoma drug resistance as a test case, the researchers showed that targeting these common control points could help overcome resistance across multiple genetic causes.
From Science Daily • May 21, 2026
He probably does think slapping his name on a gaudy structure will be enough to overcome the historical record of his failures.
From Salon • May 20, 2026
To help the boy overcome these self-defeating tendencies, Collins ordered a clock from Germany with a special ten-second timer, and he insisted that Bobby play with it to practice thinking and moving more rapidly.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
Vocabulary lists containing overcome
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