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Lawmakers will struggle to block it, though, without a joint resolution and a two-thirds majority vote in the House and Senate to override a potential presidential veto.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

The Constitution lets states set the rules for conducting congressional elections, but gives Congress the power to override those rules.

From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026

Plus, the package cleared both the House and Senate with overwhelming, veto-proof majorities, so Congress could override the president.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 26, 2026

“However artists are not simply catalogue assets, and innovation cannot be used to override artists’ rights.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

“Dojjiou know how to override the system manually?”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

But according to the research of professor Richard Hasen, the rate of congressional overrides has steadily decreased over the years as Congress becomes slower and less productive with each passing term.

From Slate ● Jul. 6, 2026

He pointed to a recent landmark bill, State Senate Bill 79, which overrides local zoning laws to allow for taller, denser buildings near major transit stops.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Employees are no longer trained to perform overrides they are not expected to use.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2026

As this is a contract between two people, it generally overrides a will.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026

“Well, in a sense. However, the mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.”

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin

On the same night it approved the contracts, the board overrode its own chief financial officer to pull $175 million from a fund set aside for retiree health benefits.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

However, Tesla argues that the driver manually overrode the technology.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 29, 2026

Last year, researchers at the UK's AI Security Institute found jailbreaks that overrode safeguards across a range of harmful requests in every AI system it tested.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026

But Mr. Adams overrode Mr. Lander and approved the deal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 2, 2026

“I don’t care,” he interrupted in an even voice, so full of richness that it overrode all the others.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

In the past, board chairs have rarely, if ever, overridden the executives.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, said on X that the driver had manually overridden the system by “by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.”

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026

There were "strong" powers to protect the freedom to protest, she said, but they could be overridden on the advice of the police.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025

Career officials objected to letting Musk have private income data of millions, but they were overridden.

From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2025

Their twisted boughs, stooping to the ground, were overridden by a clambering maze of old briars.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

"The overriding priority is to rescue as many people as possible while urgently providing life-saving health care to the injured," said Ciro Ugarte, emergencies director for PAHO, the UN health agency's Americas regional branch.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

States and cities are rethinking zoning laws, allowing accessory dwelling units and overriding local rules near public transit.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 17, 2026

The only overriding lesson may be that there are no overriding lessons.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Callais decision to take effect immediately, a rare move overriding the standard rule that its decisions do not take full effect until 32 days after an opinion is finalized.

From Slate ● May 7, 2026

For Ulbrickson, there was one overriding, and dark, fact to be confronted: he had failed again to make good on his public promises.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown