overhang
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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
SpaceX is having its best day in weeks now that an overhang has been lifted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Instead, the overhang decided to kill Jack’s hopes by cracking right in half with a sound like thunder.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
If the U.S. and Iran sign a peace deal, these overhangs could disappear as quickly as they arrived.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Iran’s flag before the 1979 revolution — green, white and red with a lion and a rising sun — flutters from many overhangs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
Oracle has also managed to clear overhangs about its AI-funding plans with its announcement last month of a $50 billion debt-and-equity raise for 2026.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 11, 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
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
“From here, it only gets better,” Miller said, looking upstream at the sparkling river, overhung with a deep forest.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
She strained to look through the window of the study, but it was just a dark mullioned square overhung with creeper.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
“But once that technical overhanging is gone, I believe it’s going to trade at a premium, or at least at NAV.”
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
A dog has been rescued after falling through an overhanging ledge of snow and spending a wintry night out on a mountain in the Highlands.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2026
But the canal authorities don’t allow overhanging cargo that could hit infrastructure such as light poles at the waterway’s locks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025
The goats have also attacked the neighbors and climbed on top of their car in a shared driveway to eat the leaves off an overhanging tree, Paszterko wrote in his Aug. 7 filing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2024
I pull the team up alongside the river to rest them under some overhanging willows.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
