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overbear

[oh-ver-bair] / ˌoʊ vərˈbɛər /










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But in the wrong hands, whether that is an overbearing state or a foreign power, the information could be used for something more nefarious.

From BBC

Within a year, Shockley’s overbearing management style — and a tendency to claim other people’s work as his own — prompted Dr. Moore and seven other scientists to bolt.

From Washington Post

But of course, that was the point: To mock not just the overbearing pressure to have kids, but the false assumptions that childless women are nothing but selfish hedonists.

From Salon

In it, a young couple who just moved into a new home complains of having pests — not ants but overbearing “aunts.”

From Seattle Times

One defender of the group fumed that Korea had been suffering from overbearing Chinese “for 3,000 years.”

From Washington Times