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In a Fox News interview, Netanyahu also praised an Israeli passenger who helped overpower the attacker, identifying him only as Yanik and describing him as a plumber.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

"Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster," Netanyahu wrote on X.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Powell compared China’s naval strategy around Taiwan to that of a boa constrictor, moving slowly to overpower its rival, rather than striking dramatically as a viper might.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026

He wanted to include his friends in the world of “Omakase” without letting the feature list overpower the project’s mystique.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026

I realized my eyes were wet, and I fought against the grief that was trying to overpower me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

“It was confusing, because as the judge speaks, her microphone overpowers the translator on the video call,” Alberto said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026

It has spread extensively across the north-west Highlands where it often overpowers native species.

From BBC ● May 21, 2026

This superhuman strength reminds me of the moment Miss Pross, an average woman at best, overpowers the vicious and bitter Madame Defarge in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.”

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

“You’ve got to have something so significant that overpowers money,” George Trice said.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

I wondered, How long will it be before the people’s fear of hunger overpowers their fear of my teacher?

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis

Caleb Yirenkyi: Tried to give energy to the Coventry midfield but was overpowered by an impressive Arsenal side.

From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026

Were those chuckles overpowered by groans and eye rolls?

From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026

Flooding allowed the fish to escape into the Mississippi Basin, and to reproduce at rates that have overpowered native species.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026

Japan Society presented avant-garde, multidisciplinary Japanese dancer Hiroaki Umeda’s dazzling multimedia “assimilating,” a display that well overpowered the Met’s attempts at video and movement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

The warmth, the smell of food and wood smoke, overpowered Jethro for a while, and he would have sat silent, drinking in content, if his obligations as a guest had not demanded more of him.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

The urge, he later tells me, feels overpowering.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

If it doesn’t quite know what to do with the overpowering, Zurg-like menace of technology taking over life on this planet, nobody else does either.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026

Dustin Dunwoody, Royal: Armed with an overpowering fastball, Dunwoody is 7-0, has an 0.18 ERA with 74 strikeouts in 39 1/3 innings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2026

When Roberts-Smith came home from Afghanistan in 2013, he was considered a national hero, having been awarded Australia's highest military honour for single-handedly overpowering Taliban fighters attacking his SAS platoon.

From BBC ● Apr. 8, 2026

They were thawed out and the delicious smell was quite overpowering.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams