Example Sentences
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A czar who can be overruled overnight on the central tactics of his own operation is not a czar.
From Salon ● Jul. 21, 2026
His body will not be overruled by a blackout blind.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
A UC faculty task force recommended keeping the SAT in 2020, but the regents overruled it and voted to develop a UC-specific test that a committee later determined would take too long to create.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
The lower courts would assume they still had to follow that precedent until it was overruled, rather than guess what a cryptic shadow docket order meant.
From Slate ● Jun. 1, 2026
His colleague Richard Feynman wanted to call these new basic particles partons, as in Dolly, but was overruled.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
