overbear
Example Sentences
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Rep. Jason Smith, Missouri Republican and chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, said giving direct-file powers to the IRS would add to an already overbearing agency’s control over Americans’ wallets.
From Washington Times
I told her to just go out there and be that overbearing mom.
From Los Angeles Times
The report lays out the creeping, and eventually overbearing, squeeze put on Jewish-owned businesses.
From Seattle Times
For foreign nationals, the need to abandon Khartoum had become overbearing by the seventh day of the conflict.
From Washington Times
In her 30s at the time, Rivera writes she felt she was too young, polite and distant from her inner “renegade” to play an overbearing stage mother.
From New York Times
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