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overcomes

  • present tense form
    of overcome (3rd person singular).
    overcome
    verb (used with object)
    to get the better of in a struggle or conflict; conquer; defeat.

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Not unlike the bestselling memoir “Educated” by Tara Westover, who overcomes an abusive childhood in a rural survivalist Mormon family.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

This overcomes a key challenge facing Moore's Law that Intel sums up as: "You can make something smaller and smaller and smaller... until you can't".

From Barron's ● May 25, 2026

"This technology overcomes the longstanding scaling bottleneck caused by size effects through the combination of induced crystallization and buried interface restoration," said Prof. Shuping Pang.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 1, 2026

What is your vision for how Europe overcomes this?

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 2026

Brilliant immigrant kid overcomes poverty and the Depression, can’t get a job at the stuffy downtown law firms, makes it on his own through sheer hustle and ability.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell