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Instead, Batchik said, Icelanders decided the potential benefits of membership weren’t enough to override worries that joining the EU could undermine the country’s sovereignty.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

If the account owner had a will leaving this bank account to a third party, it would generally not override a valid beneficiary designation.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

"The fundamental right to walk on demarcated footpaths shall override the privilege of a motorised vehicle," he declared.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

China has drawn up new safety rules for the growing number of autonomous vehicles on its roads, including a mandatory deactivation override, the government said Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

"Remote override takes priority over any onboard controls. It assumes there's been a disaster and the ship's control panels can't be trusted."

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

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

Yet the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission insists that it has jurisdiction over prediction markets, which overrides state laws that prohibit or regulate gambling.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 26, 2026

The Student Group Claim argues this basic principle of consumer law overrides any clauses in university contracts which seek to absolve the institution from responsibility for disruption.

From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2026

On one wall, flashers and safety overrides blinked to indicate that there were electric malfunctions and topside failures, probably from having the conning deck go under.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi

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

“Getting Peter Mandelson the job was a priority that overrode everything else,” said Emily Thornberry, chair of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and a Labour lawmaker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 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

Cutler said this has a lower likelihood of being overridden by courts, noting Trump's top trade official Jamieson Greer had carefully navigated procedural requirements before imposing duties.

From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026

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

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

Earlier this week, the government centralised management of the situation, overriding the local authority, after criticism that it had been slow to respond.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026

The law aims to prevent civil litigation overriding its climate policy and undermining business confidence, the government said.

From Barron's ● Aug. 19, 2026

As a political reporter, I came away from Comic Con with one overriding impression: If world politics were more like the comic book world, reality would be a safer, saner and healthier place.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 8, 2026

Ending the war and healing the war-torn nation are Lincoln’s overriding ambitions.

From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly