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overhang

[oh-ver-hang, oh-ver-hang] / ˌoʊ vərˈhæŋ, ˈoʊ vərˌhæŋ /


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Concerns include uncertainty around telecom M&A activity, the overhang from long-term contract disputes, potential satellite-coverage competition and the renewed impact from interest rates, they say.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

By comparison, a conventional 4-base overhang produced an efficiency of only 8%, giving the new approach a fivefold advantage.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

For Al-Louh, his wife and six children, living under the overhang of a partially destroyed building, the Yellow Line has imposed its own schedule.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

SpaceX’s stock just had its best day in weeks, with a closely watched overhang having now been lifted.

From MarketWatch Aug. 7, 2026

Isabella, Julia, and I always bring, so we sit in the overhang area.

From "A Good Kind of Trouble" by Lisa Moore Ramée

The improvement became even greater with longer overhangs.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

Plenty of stock overhangs remain, and the buzz around hantavirus is purely speculative.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Iran’s flag before the 1979 revolution — green, white and red with a lion and a rising sun — flutters from many overhangs.

From Los Angeles Times May 1, 2026

Oracle has also managed to clear overhangs about its AI-funding plans with its announcement last month of a $50 billion debt-and-equity raise for 2026.

From MarketWatch Mar. 11, 2026

To climb the rocky hills at the peak of which our neighbors’ porches rose even higher, their balustrades festooned with potted plants, the zinc overhangs sparkling in the midday sun.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

It’s round so it can turn in place without running into another object, and flat so it can clean floors overhung by kitchen cabinets.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 6, 2025

Betsy Aurnou, climbing with wraparound shades and fabric completely covering her face, carried Fritos and Vitalyte, and referred to the occasional slivers of shadow beneath overhung cliffs as “shade opportunities.”

From New York Times Aug. 1, 2023

Biden’s first stop Sunday was the memorial outside Robb Elementary School, located in a quiet grid of streets overhung with pecan trees and roamed by quarrelsome chickens.

From Washington Post May 29, 2022

Some houses were so close to the narrowed stream that their decks overhung the water.

From Scientific American Apr. 1, 2022

He stood beside a black rock that overhung the waters of a pool.

From "Beowulf: A New Telling" by Robert Nye

To efficiently connect short pieces of DNA, scientists rely on overhanging sequences called sticky ends.

From Science Daily Aug. 19, 2026

For 30 years, a dead body known as "Green Boots" has been lying in the snow, nestled under an overhanging rock, not far from Mount Everest's summit.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

With its deeply overhanging roofs, its insistent horizontality, and ground-hugging form, it is an exemplar of the Prairie Style.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 27, 2026

“But once that technical overhanging is gone, I believe it’s going to trade at a premium, or at least at NAV.”

From Barron's May 1, 2026

The willow tree overhanging the brook shielded us from all eyes, and the maze kept our secrets.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein




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