overpass
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Early on, the braking mechanism was harsh and the trucks sometimes unexpectedly stopped when approaching an overpass.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Body-camera video captured officers approaching 33-year-old Alejandro Garcia as he was walking through traffic on Normandie Avenue underneath the 10 Freeway overpass.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
On Sept. 9, deputies got a tip that a couple was living with a newborn baby under an Interstate 5 overpass, the Yolo County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
The video shows a spray of debris flying as the truck struck the overpass, tipped over, and skidded on its side.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
The Saturn Rings Roundabout Motel was located beneath an overpass on Route 22.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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They seek shelter in tents, bushes and overpasses in a city that has struggled with one of the worst housing crises in the country.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2026
Parallel to the tramway, much of Alexandria's iconic corniche is now hidden behind overpasses, private businesses and beachside food courts.
From Barron's ● Feb. 25, 2026
There are no overpasses or power cables in sight.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Guards have been stationed 24 hours a day at the entrances to overpasses and bridges to prevent any protests, some of them in army uniforms.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2025
He’d been hearing about the New Orleanians stranded under highway overpasses, and he didn’t want to be among them.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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"We could do a better job of getting pucks through. Maybe even shooting a little bit more. I think we overpassed at times."
From Fox News ● Mar. 3, 2022
They overpassed on some possessions, turning down layups and shooting 3’s instead.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 26, 2021
The Coyotes made it a two-goal lead 11:57 into the second period when the Capitals’ fourth line overpassed on an odd-man rush, leading to a turnover.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 11, 2018
“I thought we overpassed the puck early in the game for sure,” Pittsburgh coach Mike Johnston said.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 21, 2015
In this characterisation I have overpassed the limits of the fifteen cases presented by Krafft-Ebing.
From A Problem in Modern Ethics being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion, addressed especially to Medical Psychologists and Jurists by John Addington Symonds
Her husband still stood motionless before her; there was the same slight pallor on his face as had been visible at noon, when the danger was just overpast, but his eyes were veiled once more.
From Success and How He Won It by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
It soon grew apparent, now that the meridian of poor Cynthia's wrath was overpast, that the child would have to pay the price of it.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
But when the first emotion of surprise was overpast, a dogged resolution succeeded to it and with it a determination to put, if need be, as bold a face upon the matter as we could.
From The Wayfarers by J. C. Snaith
And now the greatest heat of the day being overpast, a ramble is proposed.
From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Julia Ward Howe
Soon after these vigilants had gone down the ladder again, the Bonadventure began to move, and the bags of guano were a tyranny that is overpast.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
And could stand to shoot the puck more rather than overpassing.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2022
“We’re actually probably overpassing laterally and sending pucks quickly through the slot that needed to just be put softly on net and make it chaos and a huge mess in front,” Johnson said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Spooked, their forwards started overpassing whenever they got deep into the Capitals’ zone.
From New York Times ● May 13, 2013
One bridge spans the Pacific from the State of Washington to Siberia, overpassing the island of Sakhalin en route.
From Time Magazine Archive
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I hear a noise of overpassing joy Within the court.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7 by Various
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