overhang
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However, the prolonged dispute with Sarawak over petroleum and gas rights remains an overhang and could weigh on investment decisions and counterparties’ confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
There was a hint of funkiness in the field, albeit an overhang from Root's first spell as captain.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 2026
By comparison, a conventional 4-base overhang produced an efficiency of only 8%, giving the new approach a fivefold advantage.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
For Al-Louh, his wife and six children, living under the overhang of a partially destroyed building, the Yellow Line has imposed its own schedule.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
Wrapping her carefully in my T-shirt so she can’t see, thrash, and hurt herself, I place her far back under the overhang where she can recover from the scare of being handled by people.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
The gains have come despite increasing complexity with supply chain overhangs from the pandemic, changing environmental regulations, and the AI craze.
From Barron's ● May 21, 2026
Iran’s flag before the 1979 revolution — green, white and red with a lion and a rising sun — flutters from many overhangs.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 1, 2026
P&G is the steadier but more expensive option, while Kimberly-Clark offers a cheaper entry point after its Kenvue deal rattled investors worried about deal risk and potential legal overhangs tied to consumer-health brands like Tylenol.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
It was too early to think of bones, even old gray mule bones, but he realized that all along the valley the cliffs were full of shallow caves and overhangs with springs.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2025
Nearby stood a crumbling amphitheater that served as a community kitchen, and near that a playground overhung by a latticework of improvised power lines.
From New York Times ● Oct. 5, 2022
Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens.
From Washington Post ● May 29, 2022
Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 1, 2022
The rock was flat, almost like a platform, and was overhung by a large fig with roots snaking down on either side.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
To efficiently connect short pieces of DNA, scientists rely on overhanging sequences called sticky ends.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 19, 2026
For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026
In the spring, the icefall doctors had finally managed to open the Khumbu Icefall section, after a massive overhanging glacial chunk, called a serac, blocked the path for much of the early climbing season.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2026
Their staple diet are deer, and they hunt by stealth often pouncing from trees or overhanging rocks.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
Who could arrest a creature capable of scaling the overhanging sides of Mont Salêve?
From "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
