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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

Recently, crews completed another overpass over adjacent Agoura Road.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 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

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

Beneath an overpass a car had been stripped, tires gone, windshield shattered, all the chrome detailing peeled away, and the engine missing.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Despite those efforts, many of the overpasses and side streets still have encampments.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 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

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

This complex and exceedingly efficient government operation was completed while residents of New Orleans were trapped in attics and begging for rescue from rooftops and highway overpasses.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers

"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

The missile came toward the battery, overpassed it, and exploded above the wood.

From The Long Roll by Mary Johnston

The storm and peril overpast, The hounding hatred shamed and still, Go, soul of freedom! take at last The place which thou alone canst fill.

From Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah K. Bolton

Emboldened by this reflection and sustained by a sense of danger overpast, I even went to the length of attempting to pave the way for the reception of the happy solution.

From Mrs. Fitz by J. C. Snaith

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

From The Great Miss Driver by Anthony Hope

How art thou every year more beautiful, Younger for all the winters thou hast cast: And I, for all my love grows, grow more dull, Decaying with each season overpast!

From The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges

True, things were greatly altered since we had agreed to go to Romford together, et nuptias facere; I had got no patron then, nor such prospects as I now had, these troubles once overpast.

From Shrewsbury A Romance by Stanley J. Weyman

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

He deemed all real knowledge of a commencement inaccessible to us, and the inquiry into it an overpassing of the essential limits of our mental faculties.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by John Stuart Mill


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