overwhelming

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In seeking the injunction, Bonta’s office argues that Amazon threatens “dire consequences if vendors do not comply. Vendors, cowed by Amazon’s overwhelming bargaining leverage and fearing punishment, comply,” according to the filing.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026

"The overwhelming majority of eclipsing binaries are tight binaries and are precisely the systems around which we most expect to find transiting circumbinary planets."

From Science Daily • Apr. 19, 2026

Despite the overwhelming sense of disappointment at full-time, De Zerbi has seen enough to believe his players can escape their perilous situation.

From BBC • Apr. 18, 2026

O’Regan told MarketWatch that as AI “usage accelerates and agents proliferate,” overwhelming demand for tokens is putting pressure on AI companies to throttle back usage and may potentially even cause outages.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026

The small patch of land in the monastery garden produced an overwhelming volume of data to analyze—twenty-eight thousand plants, forty thousand flowers, and nearly four hundred thousand seeds.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee