overarching
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I agree with your overarching point: Mixing friendship and finance is usually a bad idea, especially when it comes to more vulnerable people.
From MarketWatch • May 27, 2026
Despite researching flights, logistical reasons led to him abandoning the plan – but not the overarching plot.
From BBC • May 1, 2026
But, critics say, the use of this data is still often too piecemeal and isolated, with no overarching strategy to bring it together cohesively.
From Barron's • Apr. 22, 2026
But there is nothing to tell you why one object is next to the other, how those objects fit into the overarching theme or what their significance is.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
A stream splashed swiftly between mossy rocks, and disappeared over a lip into a narrow little chasm dark under the overarching trees.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing overarching
Life of Pi
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