overwritten
- past participle of overwrite.
Example Sentences
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In his latest book, “Other Rivers,” Peter Hessler observes that in China, memory is often physically overwritten by the mechanics of development.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
In more than 250 of these, the incident had not been recorded, there was a system fault, the footage was of an unusable quality, or it had already been overwritten.
From BBC • Feb. 24, 2026
Delegated lines of authority are muddied, overwritten by social contracts among agency leaders, and operations suffer huge bottlenecks because no one—often not even the political appointees—knows if they have the authority to make decisions.
From Slate • Feb. 21, 2025
Before he abandons his original directive entirely, an effect of it being overwritten by other programming, he warns Rain that she won’t see him like a child anymore.
From Salon • Aug. 26, 2024
“It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.”
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
