overcoming

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It was only a few weeks ago that the Knicks had pulled out a win in a different set of impossible circumstances, overcoming a 22-point fourth-quarter deficit to win Game 1 of the conference finals.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Mexican midfielder Edson Álvarez is heading to his third World Cup after overcoming an injury and criticism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

“This is a major hurdle and overcoming this barrier has been really the Holy Grail in neurology,” he says.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

"We employ a straightforward stacking approach to integrate ultra-thin materials with metasurfaces, overcoming the technical challenges of direct material growth on photonic structures, and enabling further advances in valleytronics," Dr. Xing said.

From Science Daily • Jun. 2, 2026

The wood, Pocock murmured, taught us about survival, about overcoming difficulty, about prevailing over adversity, but it also taught us something about the underlying reason for surviving in the first place.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown