overhang
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Subway cars and burned-out streets don’t require much in the way of elaborate illustration for the overhang of menace to be felt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026
But neither Enflame nor its fellow GPU makers have yet to turn a sustainable profit, creating an overhang for investors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
Using an 18-base overhang, the researchers achieved a joining efficiency of 44%.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
We reached the overhang and tried to back against it.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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
The South Korean entertainment company’s stock valuation discount already reflects structural overhangs, such as weak earnings-per-share visibility and balance sheet concerns, Kim says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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
In the white weather one could not see a crevasse until one could look down in to it—a little late, for the edges overhung, and were not always solid.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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
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 cave has a skylight on the Moon’s surface, leading down to vertical and overhanging walls, and a sloping floor that might extend further underground.
From BBC ● Jul. 15, 2024
She directed our little sister to a chinaberry tree with giant overhanging branches a few yards away.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
