overcome

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Higher oil prices are the latest challenge for a U.S. economy that has overcome crosscurrents sweeping through trade, consumer behavior and government spending.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

But being trained in the process is perhaps the easiest hurdle to overcome.

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

The scheme is intended to overcome the fear that some jobseekers have that they'll have no money for weeks if they take a job that doesn't work out.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

To overcome this, the researchers refined a method called tensor-based polarization holography, which preserves the polarization state of light during reconstruction.

From Science Daily • Mar. 29, 2026

All the years Grandpa Dodzi had lived, the changes he’d seen, the struggles he’d overcome, his grit, his irrepressible humor—all lost to us and the world because his time had come.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo