overwhelming
Example Sentences
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Big Tech tumbled, with its outsize weighting overwhelming the index after the group also saw heavy losses in February amid worries over high valuations.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Called distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, these were massive floods of junk internet data designed to knock websites offline by overwhelming the data pipes that connected them.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026
An overwhelming majority of system users in a study commissioned by the agency that oversees the lifeline said they found it helpful and potentially lifesaving.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
A multi-warhead missile can strike multiple targets with a single launch while overwhelming defence systems through simultaneous, dispersed reentry vehicles.
From Barron's • Mar. 29, 2026
As the twenty-two men left on Elephant Island watched the James Caird disappear among the ice on April 24, most of them felt an overwhelming gloom begin to settle.
From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong
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