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overpass

[oh-ver-pas, -pahs, oh-ver-pas, -pahs] / ˈoʊ vərˌpæs, -ˌpɑs, ˌoʊ vərˈpæs, -ˈpɑs /
NOUN
bridge
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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

As for Arnold, he lived with his grandparents in an old boarding house under a freeway overpass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Dashcam video captured the dramatic moment a lorry slammed into an overpass in New York.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In October 2022, a rare protest at a highway overpass in Beijing prompted authorities to post security officials at dozens of city overpasses, particularly ahead of notable political events and anniversaries—a practice that continues today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

And if night fell too soon and Justin was forced to go home by foot over the Bruckner Expressway overpass in the dark, he knew to run all the way.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

Since 2008, the authority has spent about $15 billion purchasing thousands of land parcels and building giant overpasses, rail beds, walls and other concrete structures that now loom over California’s Central Valley.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026

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

That law allows the council to create 41.18 zones around “sensitive use” locations, such as public libraries and freeway overpasses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 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

Under overpasses or in runoff drains they congregated, smoking cigarettes, the hoods of their sweatshirts pulled up.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

"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

Sir William Dawson had considerably overpassed the span of life of which the Psalmist speaks: it was 'by reason of strength' that it was for him well-nigh fourscore years.

From McGill and its Story, 1821-1921 by Cyrus MacMillan

O Lord, our God, in Thee do we put our trust and under the shadow of Thy wings do we make our refuge until these calamities be overpast.

From The Little Treasure of Prayers Being a Translation of the Epitome from the German Larger 'Treasure of prayers' ['Gebets-Schatz'] by Anonymous

As the emerald green of the lower hills shone the brighter for the patches of snow, harbingers of winter, which flecked them, so her spirits rose the higher for troubles overpast or to come.

From Starvecrow Farm by Stanley J. Weyman

I lay in all the prostration of a bruised and subdued spirit, praying fervently and loudly unto God that He might be pleased to cover me with his hand till his wrath was overpast.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Alexander Leighton

That ordeal was nearly overpast, but she would forget its corroding bitterness never!

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

Keep him there—keep him there, till the danger is overpast!

From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

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

In this respect the German act differs from the English act, which allows no such automatic statutory power of overpassing the limit of issue.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" by Various


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