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overpass

[oh-ver-pas, -pahs, oh-ver-pas, -pahs] / ˈoʊ vərˌpæs, -ˌpɑs, ˌoʊ vərˈpæs, -ˈpɑs /
NOUN
bridge
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Responding officers caught up to Garcia as he was walking through traffic on Normandie Avenue underneath the 10 Freeway overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

Dashcam video captured the dramatic moment a lorry slammed into an overpass in New York.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 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

To begin, each projector beamed a white grid in a trapezoidal shape onto the wall and a portion of the overpass ceiling.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

He had just walked out from under a freeway overpass when the shoe hit him on the head.

From "Holes" by Louis Sachar

Since 2008, the authority has spent about $15 billion purchasing thousands of land parcels and building giant overpasses, rail beds, walls and other concrete structures that now loom over California’s Central Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 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

Miller supports Municipal Code Section 41.18, which bars encampments from coming within 500 feet of schools, daycare centers and “sensitive” locations, such as designated libraries or 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

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses.

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

And these nightmares overpassed the limits of abomination that the most dangerous madness dreams.

From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

This fury of rage and perplexity overpast, however, the strenuous folk of those times began the work of rebuilding the church almost before the blackened stones and charred timbers of the ruined building were cold.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Charles G. Harper

Keep him there—keep him there, till the danger is overpast!

From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

Go about his business--was there not sad, pressing business at Beamond's farm?--until the storm was overpast.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

And now the greatest heat of the day being overpast, a ramble is proposed.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe

Her eyes were open and the snowstorm overpast, leaving the sky clear, and all the westward heaven alight with the trailing, crackling, leaping curtains of the Aurora, brighter than she had ever seen them before.

From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

Scarcely was Mohammed buried when his religion manifested its inevitable destiny of overpassing the bounds of Arabia.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper




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