overbear
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I know that it is easy to overbear a person’s mind if you continuously barrage them with questions and accuse them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2011
But just because Karl Malden won't be brought to overbear on this doesn't mean Amex considers it unimportant.
From Time Magazine Archive
Calm, cool, firm self-possession seemed to overbear all other feelings.
From Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Troops were given to him, it was thought, amply sufficient to overbear all opposition.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 14 by Various
It was not a mere effort to overbear their sorrow—an outward semblance of reconciliation to their hard fate—but it was a deep fountain of real gladness, welling up from their riven spirits.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Jumping between past and present, the film tells the story of Alex Serian, a cellist who moves to Los Angeles to care for his dying mother and escape an overbearing ex played by Olivia Wilde.
From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026
It is both lonely and silent, with the players on their own as they compete, unless they have an overbearing coach yelling at them from the sidelines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
If Reilly was at times overbearing — and known for being the kind of hellacious boss who gave employees night sweats — he was also generous and a genuine bleeding heart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026
Don’t bring up any overbearing behavior like, “You message me too much,” as they will probably get defensive.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026
Wasn't quite midday so the heat wasn’t overbearing and there weren’t no heat waves across the fields io make the eye see things funny.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
The discussion grew warm between us; the more, as I was alone in my opinion, and assailed by several who overbore me with loud speaking.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
His sense of public duty, however, overbore all personal considerations, and he set sail on the 16th of March, 1775, and died off Gloucester, Massachusetts, on the 26th of April.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by James H. Stark
She stood for a trifle, hesitant, peering into the hallway now dark with evening shadow; then curiosity overbore her reluctance.
From The Bandbox by Louis Joseph Vance
The bitterness which filled his heart against Simon Halpen overbore any other emotion.
From With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bertram Foster
This so tickled Long Jack that he overbore Tom Platt, and the two went out together.
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
Watts was "obsessed" with Sansom, but it was not a case of "one person's will being overborne by another", the judge added.
From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2025
Charles Cherry is the over-bearing husband who is finally overborne.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
The plants and grasses that possessed the soil were obviously weeds, and the degraded survivals of a gentler growth lurked among them overborne and half strangled.
From Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel by Margaret Veley
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