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Liverpool have to click sooner or later, and if their attack gets going here then they could overpower my boyhood club.

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Italy overpowered Austria in the Davis Cup quarter-finals to move a step closer to becoming the first nation to win three consecutive titles for 53 years.

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His eyes filled with tears, but it might have been from the overpowering smell of herring.

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The smell was so overpowering Penelope could barely speak.

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An enormous French fleet was attempting to invade England by sailing up the Solent Strait and overpowering the British fleet and the naval facilities at Portsmouth.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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