overhang
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However, the prolonged dispute with Sarawak over petroleum and gas rights remains an overhang and could weigh on investment decisions and counterparties’ confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
There was a hint of funkiness in the field, albeit an overhang from Root's first spell as captain.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
By comparison, a conventional 4-base overhang produced an efficiency of only 8%, giving the new approach a fivefold advantage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Al-Louh, his wife and six children, living under the overhang of a partially destroyed building, the Yellow Line has imposed its own schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Sam was standing under a jutting overhang not for from her.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
Under the proposal, residents would not be allowed to plant anything within a 1-foot “Safety Zone” around the home, including beneath roof overhangs; two feet from windows, vents and doors and five feet from decks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2026
“We do not expect these debates to resolve within the course of next year, with looming overhangs potentially sidelining investors in many cases,” Zelnick said in a Jan. 6 research note.
From Barron's ● Jan. 20, 2026
Talk of tariffs and aggressive drug-pricing regulation faded, giving way to headline-grabbing price deals between the White House and drugmakers that lifted two of the biggest policy overhangs on pharmaceutical stocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 6, 2026
I passed the bridge of Pélissier, where the ravine, which the river forms, opened before me, and I began to ascend the mountain that overhangs it.
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Nearby stood a crumbling amphitheater that served as a community kitchen, and near that a playground overhung by a latticework of improvised power lines.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
When they had struggled to the bottom of the bank, they found a stream running down from the hills behind in a deeply dug bed with steep slippery sides overhung with brambles.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
To efficiently connect short pieces of DNA, scientists rely on overhanging sequences called sticky ends.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
Zumthor’s building design, which includes overhanging canopies, intentionally creates shade with outdoor events in mind, the executive explained.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026
Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
A young man stood in the shadow of an overhanging roof.
From "Tiger, Tiger" by Lynne Reid Banks
