overarching

Example Sentences

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There’s some truth to this, but the overarching emphasis on miasma theory fundamentally ignores how the immune system works.

From Salon

Borrowing a page from London's playbook, authorities have also decided to split the municipal corporation into five smaller bodies and set up an overarching Greater Bengaluru Authority.

From Barron's

Nonetheless, the “overarching theme” for the industry is that there is a scarcity of compute power.

From MarketWatch

Spokesperson Guzman-Barrera said Office of Equity, Racial, and Social Justice officials “concur with almost all the overarching themes in the report,” and said staff are already working to implement some of the audit’s recommendations.

From Seattle Times

If you simply slid portions of the pattern to another place, that overarching structure would be broken.

From Scientific American