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
Things have been especially grim on the 51st Street overpass, where tents, makeshift structures and huge mounds of trash lined the sidewalks.
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
The force was called at about noon on 29 January to junction 17 westbound in Conwy Morfa, under the A547 overpass.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Across the creek from Julia’s house, where the old washed-out road lay in crumbled chunks, stood a concrete abutment that once served as an overpass to the floodwaters of winter and spring.
From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith
Despite those efforts, many of the overpasses and side streets still have encampments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
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
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
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
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
Lovett's was long and high, but at last Lovett's, too, was overpassed.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
Soon after these vigilants had gone down the ladder again, the Bonadventure began to move, and the bags of guano were a tyranny that is overpast.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
That ordeal was nearly overpast, but she would forget its corroding bitterness never!
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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
True, things were greatly altered since we had agreed to go to Romford together, et nuptias facere; I had got no patron then, nor such prospects as I now had, these troubles once overpast.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman
The tempest was overpast, and had destroyed no vital part.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
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 tornado, overpassing river and plain, burst on the southern hills.
From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
