overwhelming
Example Sentences
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Malinin, the 21-year old from Northern Virginia, comes into the Milan Cortina Olympics as one of Team USA’s biggest stars and the overwhelming favorite to win gold in men’s figure skating.
Still, he found the interest being added on to what he owed "overwhelming", and began making voluntary repayments from the get-go.
From BBC
“The overwhelming driver of alpha and private credit comes from minimizing realized credit losses and periods of credit stress put this to the test,” he said.
From Barron's
This stylistic approach allows Herbert to expertly avoid inadvertently selling Natchez itself, instead focusing on how this town’s peculiar relationship to an overwhelming past still lives inside those doing the selling.
From Los Angeles Times
The joy of all the family at that first call, captured on video, is overwhelming.
From BBC
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