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For industry veteran Karen Baker Landers, the decline in local post-production work is impossible to overlook.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
During his time living at the home, Evans has created multiple outdoor spaces from where the views can be enjoyed, including a secluded paved patio with deck chairs that overlook the city below.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
These categories are useful, but they can overlook important differences between populations that have adapted to different environments within the human body.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 7, 2026
They are astonishingly adaptable and, perhaps for exactly that reason, easy to overlook.
From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026
So I always struggled with pretending that maybe my friends could overlook that I was only fourteen, even if I couldn’t.
From "Winger" by Andrew Smith
A mile-long boardwalk overlooks the beach, as does the Fiscalini Ranch Preserve, which has its own popular blufftop trail.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Mao's face is printed on banknotes, his portrait overlooks Tiananmen Square, and his body is preserved in a mausoleum.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
The property also boasts 740 square feet of decking—and a large swimming pool that overlooks the ocean.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
Amanda, whose home overlooks the site, said her biggest concern was "the noise, the visual impact and whether it will affect house prices" in her local area.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Behind her is a window that overlooks the city.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
The findings reveal an overlooked way that water can contribute to the gradual deterioration of protective surfaces.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
In places like Minneapolis and Des Moines, Iowa, insurers are factoring in hail and severe convective storms, ICE added, which is a “a peril that is frequently overlooked but is now driving double-digit increases.”
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
A young gay man who also felt overlooked and underestimated needed that story like air.
From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2026
Bihar bears the greatest burden, but Uttar Pradesh is a significant and often overlooked part of the risk.
From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026
The Hitler Youth divided the neighborhoods into sections, to make sure no house was overlooked.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
In the weeks afterward, people returned to offices overlooking the smoky ruins.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But they did not yet hold any areas directly overlooking Bab al-Mandab.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
The BBC's Middle East correspondent Lucy Williamson reports from Ma'ale Adumim - an existing Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, overlooking Israel's proposed E1 site.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
We arrived at Orikum and sat down for a caffè freddo at a café overlooking the sea.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
I chose a spot overlooking the way they had to pass as they approached the cave.
From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien
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