Example Sentences

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One key to bracing for a potential layoff is overcoming the paralysis that tends to grip us when we sense trouble.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 18, 2025

Opponents contend the slow-growth measure would slam on the brakes, just as the city is overcoming decades of construction inertia.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 7, 2023

The developments indicate the Chinese tech giant is overcoming Washington's export controls, which since 2019 have barred it from obtaining components and technology from U.S. firms without approval.

From Reuters • Sep. 20, 2023

Power is overcoming a rocky few months since his championship.

From Washington Times • Mar. 2, 2023

A debtor nation like Germany is highly sensitive to these conditions, and just as she is overcoming, by her splendid success as a manufacturing nation this problem, she is met by increased and ever-increasing rivalry.

From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price