overpass
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The video shows a spray of debris flying as the truck struck the overpass, tipped over, and skidded on its side.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Kevin Paz, who has been sleeping on the 51st Street overpass in South L.A., said he used to live a few blocks away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Seated on the overpass on a swelteringly hot day, the 32-year-old said he picked his particular strip of sidewalk for the shade it gets from the elevated 110 Freeway carpool lane.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
In October 2022, a rare protest at a highway overpass in Beijing prompted authorities to post security officials at dozens of city overpasses, particularly ahead of notable political events and anniversaries—a practice that continues today.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
She didn’t wave, but just started walking, taking her time, marching up the stairs to the overpass and then back down to the street.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in the country.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
That law allows the council to create 41.18 zones around “sensitive use” locations, such as public libraries and freeway overpasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Parallel to the tramway, much of Alexandria's iconic corniche is now hidden behind overpasses, private businesses and beachside food courts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
Other ways to alleviate congestion and delays at major interchanges include building more overpasses and underpasses that separate road and railroad tracks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
He’d been hearing about the New Orleanians stranded under highway overpasses, and he didn’t want to be among them.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
"We could do a better job of getting pucks through. Maybe even shooting a little bit more. I think we overpassed at times."
From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022
They overpassed on some possessions, turning down layups and shooting 3’s instead.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The Coyotes made it a two-goal lead 11:57 into the second period when the Capitals’ fourth line overpassed on an odd-man rush, leading to a turnover.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2018
“I thought we overpassed the puck early in the game for sure,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
The thin trickle of water had been overpassed, churned, trampled into mire and dirt, by half the army, horse and foot.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
The tyranny of that error, however, is now well-nigh overpast.
From An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion by F. B. (Frank Byron) Jevons
Yet for my mother's sake she asked me to think of returning, for she thought that for me the shower was surely slacked and the on-ding overpast.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
He on his part would pass Chapuys without notice till the present tyranny was overpast.
From The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII by J.A. Froude
Keep him there—keep him there, till the danger is overpast!
From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope
The ten miles of road were overpast, the carriage left, the mountain climbed.
From Frondes Agrestes Readings in 'Modern Painters' by John Ruskin
And could stand to shoot the puck more rather than overpassing.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
“We’re actually probably overpassing laterally and sending pucks quickly through the slot that needed to just be put softly on net and make it chaos and a huge mess in front,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Spooked, their forwards started overpassing whenever they got deep into the Capitals’ zone.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2013
One bridge spans the Pacific from the State of Washington to Siberia, overpassing the island of Sakhalin en route.
From Time Magazine Archive
The floor of this sewer was formed of large limestone slabs overpassing the inside width of the channel by several inches.
From A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 by Sir Walter Armstrong
