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overlook

[oh-ver-look, oh-ver-look] / ˌoʊ vərˈlʊk, ˈoʊ vərˌlʊk /






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Still, the market’s negative reaction may overlook some important results, including improving margins and measures of profitability and sales productivity.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

During his time living at the home, Evans has created multiple outdoor spaces from where the views can be enjoyed, including a secluded paved patio with deck chairs that overlook the city below.

From MarketWatch Sep. 8, 2026

These categories are useful, but they can overlook important differences between populations that have adapted to different environments within the human body.

From Science Daily Sep. 7, 2026

They are astonishingly adaptable and, perhaps for exactly that reason, easy to overlook.

From Salon Sep. 7, 2026

Once Fiona came upstairs she wouldn’t be able to overlook the dripping sound of the mess leaking between the boards into the attic, or the smell.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

But to do so overlooks the thrilling, genuinely thorny assertions contained in several of the season’s best films.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 19, 2026

Mao's face is printed on banknotes, his portrait overlooks Tiananmen Square, and his body is preserved in a mausoleum.

From Barron's Sep. 6, 2026

The property also boasts 740 square feet of decking—and a large swimming pool that overlooks the ocean.

From MarketWatch Sep. 1, 2026

A creaking staircase that overlooks crenellated battlements leads to the Long Gallery, another Anne of Cleves addition.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 22, 2026

I walk with her toward the railing that overlooks the chasm, glad to be close to her.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth

Across town, Independent 20th Century, now being staged in the Breuer Building, highlights overlooked artists from the past century as well as less-studied aspects of well-known creators’ careers.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 20, 2026

New research led by UC Riverside suggests that a simple but overlooked process may help explain the difference: individual pieces of ice repeatedly collide with one another.

From Science Daily Sep. 18, 2026

Her Mona, an overlooked mother-of-two in a miserable marriage, is the only person in town who wants the small role of a building super in a cornball musical called “Nosy Neighbors.”

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2026

Boasting Georgian and Victorian architecture and overlooked by the Medieval fortress Castle Rushen, concerns have been raised over a severe decline in the number shops in Castletown's centre.

From BBC Sep. 17, 2026

I look left—there’s the dining room, painted blue, overlooked by a television, full of circular tables, separated from the hall by that glass with the square wire mesh in it.

From "It’s Kind of a Funny Story" by Ned Vizzini

In Singapore, TotalEnergies entertained guests at the Clifford Pier, a chandelier-lit hall overlooking the harbor.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

Mendocino, dominated by Victorian and New England-style saltbox houses, is built on bluffs overlooking the Pacific and surrounded by dramatic coast and forest.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Ma'ale Adumim - an existing Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, overlooking Israel's proposed E1 site.

From BBC Sep. 8, 2026

We arrived at Orikum and sat down for a caffè freddo at a café overlooking the sea.

From Slate Sep. 8, 2026

They camped that night in the woods on a ridge overlooking the broad piedmont plain where it stretched away to the south.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy




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