overstood
Americanverb
Example Sentences
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While many of the works here speak in the more coded languages of color, patterns and symbols, “Overstood” is a distinct homage to African-American activist history — but also a reminder of this country’s continuing struggles with racism and racist brutality.
From New York Times
Watching over the exhibition is “Overstood,” a kind of outlier object: a large black cutout made of canvas, sequins and tar that extends high up the gallery wall and depicts Black Panthers at a 1968 protest in San Francisco.
From New York Times
Twice in a row, we overstood the windward marks.
From Time Magazine Archive
This garland of their gambols flashes in his breast Into such a sudden zest Of summertime joys That he hies to a pool neighbouring; sees it is the best There; sweetest, freshest, shadowiest; Fairyland; silk-beech, scrolled ash, packed sycamore, wild wychelm, hornbeam fretty overstood By.
From Project Gutenberg
Doubtless he found, when he discovered George had gone, that he had "overstood the market."
From Project Gutenberg
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