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
Cannot I fashion forth Another world, another universe, To overbear and crumble this to nought?
From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by M. (Margaret) Robertson
He looked soldierly; but the soldier in him did not really very much overbear the demeanour of the quiet, ordinary gentleman.
From The Dictator by Justin McCarthy
He was angry, but he would never more attempt to overbear me with grand threats.
From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams
"The current system is not fit for purpose. It is an overbearing mess and urgently needs to be reviewed," he said.
From BBC ● Oct. 9, 2026
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
As talented figure skater Gennifer Harwood, Panettiere faithfully portrayed the evolution of friendships — especially for young women — in highly competitive sports and the tension between young athletes and their well-intended, but overbearing parents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 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
I imagine he’s one of those overbearing parents who makes you ask to be excused, and only after you’ve finished all your peas and carrots.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
Scores of the minute brown chaps rushed forth and for a moment fairly overbore the white-headed giant.
From Jungle Peace by William Beebe
This sensitive feeling, preying upon one naturally susceptible, certainly tended little to his recovery, and even at times so overbore every other sentiment, that he regretted he had ever come abroad.
From A Rent In A Cloud by Charles James Lever
After that the worst continued to happen, and at a pace that overbore all resistance.
From Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
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
Nevertheless, in the halting words of the woman who had suffered, if only from misapprehension upon so grave a point, there was a rude eloquence that overbore the lady's incredulity.
From The Convert by Elizabeth Robins
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
The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect.
From Time Magazine Archive
But Rains was all but overborne by the wooden acting of Hollywood Starlet Marisa Pavan.
From Time Magazine Archive
They were not overborne by the implications of Communist military power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ralph, although overborne by grief, possessed a firmness of mind that sought a remedy for affliction, where a remedy was attainable, instead of tamely yielding.
From The Frontiersmen by Gustave Aimard
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