be overcome
Example Sentences
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This is how, he believes, this setback can be overcome.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2026
Call it kitsch or outright ghastliness, but it’s all in defiance of a simple, stubborn truth: Death cannot be overcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
While pouring sand from one container to another, Chakraborty appears to be overcome with dust.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Those can be overcome with Starship, a mega-rocket that SpaceX said can carry more than four times as much payload to low-Earth orbit as the Falcon 9.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 10, 2026
When would sickness and death be overcome by science?
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
