overpower
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He wanted to include his friends in the world of “Omakase” without letting the feature list overpower the project’s mystique.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
The team believes giant prey animals may have triggered an "evolutionary arms race" in which predators evolved stronger jaws and skulls to overpower increasingly massive herbivores.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2026
Often, it’s “winner takes all” in the tech industry, and large companies can overpower their competitors once they get to a certain market share.
From MarketWatch ● May 13, 2026
However, that is to take nothing away from Croatia's Prizmic, who played bravely to overpower the Serb 2-6 6-2 6-4.
From BBC ● May 8, 2026
JB wouldn’t have planned to overpower Mr. Hodge and Gary all by himself.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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It has spread extensively across the north-west Highlands where it often overpowers native species.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
This superhuman strength reminds me of the moment Miss Pross, an average woman at best, overpowers the vicious and bitter Madame Defarge in Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities.”
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025
“I still think about everything that could happen. I just love the game so much that it overpowers it.”
From Seattle Times ● May 14, 2024
He overpowers most high school hitters, which allows him to escape jams with men in scoring position.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2024
“The company of officers absolutely overpowers us, you see: we find a little of it goes an awfully long way.”
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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The Kazakh second seed overpowered 13th seed Osaka to win 6-1 6-4 on Louis Armstrong Stadium to set up a quarter-final against China's Zheng Qinwen.
From BBC ● Sep. 7, 2026
But market jitters over sky-high AI spending without a path to good returns overpowered the company’s better-than-forecast financial performance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Were those chuckles overpowered by groans and eye rolls?
From Salon ● Jun. 11, 2026
Having overpowered Northampton Saints in last year's final, it was another dominant display from Bordeaux, who will attempt to emulate Toulon's 2013-15 run with a third successive title next season.
From BBC ● May 23, 2026
She stepped through the doorway, but the air overpowered her for the first moments.
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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Further on, the stench of varnish from an outhouse is overpowering.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
If it doesn’t quite know what to do with the overpowering, Zurg-like menace of technology taking over life on this planet, nobody else does either.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
At points during the third and fourth sets, he was hitting the ball 40mph faster than Djokovic on his groundstrokes, with his brutal striking overpowering the Serb at the back of court.
From BBC ● May 29, 2026
She finished with 18 points and 12 rebounds, four of which she tallied on offense, simply by overpowering whichever Trojan big she was up against.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2026
Above me the thud and scrape of thirty-plus men shoving barrels of tea around was almost deafening and the interior of the ship had an overpowering musty smell that made my stomach roll a little.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
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