overhang
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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’s stock just had its best day in weeks, with a closely watched overhang having now been lifted.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
As it is, they hail the company’s resolution of complex, multistakeholder negotiations and removal of a long-running overhang on the stock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026
A few seconds later Phillip rose up past the overhang, stepping off just as neatly as May had.
From "Half Upon a Time" by James Riley
The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 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
“While we have many questions surrounding the implementation of this relationship, and the companies’ pricing strategies going forward, this deal would seem to remove the biggest near-term overhangs on the shares,” Hill wrote.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Within the enclosure there weren’t any caves or rock overhangs to shelter under.
From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer
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
We walked to a fork in the path, a crossroads overhung with massive slabs of rock that seemed poised to crush us.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
Carefully installed — thankfully not overhung — the handful of works here look almost like tapestries instead of paintings.
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2015
It was a dead-end road overhung with alders; they could see no other homes.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
With its deeply overhanging roofs, its insistent horizontality, and ground-hugging form, it is an exemplar of the Prairie Style.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026
“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
That was the central question overhanging CinemaCon 2024, the annual convention bringing together Hollywood studios and multiplex operators in Las Vegas this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
Cars slumped along the mud and gravel roads at twenty or thirty miles an hour like sluggish beetles beneath the overhanging trees.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
