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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

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

I thought of throwing it underneath the overpass, but I felt guilty and scared.

From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez

She also opposed dozens of efforts by her colleagues to create new anticamping zones in their own districts, many of them near parks, freeway overpasses and other locations.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

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

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

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

For general purposes a current density of say ten to fifteen amperes per square foot may be used, but this may be considerably varied, so long as the upper limit is not greatly overpassed.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

And now that the chance of killing frosts was overpast, Odalie and Fifine were grubbing much of the time in the ground and Hamish often came and grubbed too.

From The Story of Old Fort Loudon by Mary Noailles Murfree

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

Go about his business--was there not sad, pressing business at Beamond's farm?--until the storm was overpast.

From Sophia A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

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

Bridges have been re-erected, damages repaired, and the business community have risen from under it with the elasticity of a sapling oak after the tempest has overpast.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by John S. Springer

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

The time has come for conference, but not yet for any facile overpassing of the facts and reasons for historical separations.

From The War and Unity Being Lectures Delivered At The Local Lectures Summer Meeting Of The University Of Cambridge, 1918 by D. H. S. (David Herbert Somerset) Cranage


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