overarching
Example Sentences
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On Friday, the court cleared Kejriwal and 23 others, saying there was "no overarching conspiracy or criminal intent in the excise policy".
From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026
“It can be a nice overarching tool that can allow you to kind of simplify your bill-paying,” Schulz said.
From MarketWatch • Feb. 26, 2026
“That makes pivoting to consumption-led growth the overarching policy priority.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
Fueling the selling is an overarching fear that Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or even Alphabet’s Gemini will eventually develop business applications that displace the services provided by many public software companies.
From Barron's • Feb. 11, 2026
It’s an aspect of the art of writing which depends on intuition, experience, and guesswork, but there is also an overarching guideline.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
