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After queuing, Southern said her mum was told by staff they could not find her booking and discovered her travel agents had "overwritten" it.

From BBC • Mar. 8, 2026

She said she could not say who had "overwritten that", and repeated: "I did not deliberately falsify any paperwork."

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023

“It was about 3 a.m., and I had overwritten the scene, which became obvious the moment we started rehearsing it,” she said.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2018

In this case, 11th-century Syrian scribes had scraped away Galen’s medical text and had overwritten hymns on the parchment.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2015

On the Monday week after that was written he left Lausanne for Paris, and my first letter to him there was to say that he had overwritten his number by three pages.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John