overarching
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What is your overarching goal for these shows?
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
In the run-up to the Academy Awards, Madigan was not the overarching favorite, but wins at the Critics Choice Awards and the Actor Awards bestowed by the Screen Actors Guild snowballed into Oscars success.
From Barron's • Mar. 15, 2026
The overarching theme of this display of some 80 international artists, which occupies almost the entire Taipei Fine Arts Museum, is yearning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 13, 2026
The company's overarching question to the jury has been whether Kaley's mental health problems were clearly caused by her social media use, while making the case that many other factors were to blame.
From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026
A big heavy phrase is easier to handle if it comes at the end, when your work assembling the overarching phrase is done and nothing else is on your mind.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
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