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Recent Examples of overhead
Edward Szekeres and Brad Lendon, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Jump up, spreading your legs more than shoulder-width apart and raising your arms overhead in one fluid motion.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 22 Oct. 2024
Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
The inner revelry is cut short by an overhead fire extinguisher and a gunfight.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Soon, the park was filled with lights and activity from Cuyahoga Falls police officers, flashlights and a helicopter circling overhead.
—Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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Adverb
An aerial photo of the exercise showed the two carriers steaming side by side, with fighter jets overhead and at least 11 support ships from their carrier strike groups trailing.
—Edward Szekeres and Brad Lendon, CNN, 1 Nov. 2024
Jump up, spreading your legs more than shoulder-width apart and raising your arms overhead in one fluid motion.
—Jakob Roze, Health, 22 Oct. 2024
Adjective
At one point, McQueen cuts to a staggering overhead view of the city, a smoking and hauntingly silent ruin in Adam Stockhausen’s intricate production design.
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 25 Oct. 2024
The inner revelry is cut short by an overhead fire extinguisher and a gunfight.
—Andy Andersen, Vulture, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
Each new administrative position and software system adds to institutional overhead, driving up costs without necessarily improving educational outcomes.
—Vinay Bhaskara, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
Soon, the park was filled with lights and activity from Cuyahoga Falls police officers, flashlights and a helicopter circling overhead.
—Stephanie Warsmith and Paula Schleis, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overhead
Adverb
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The speaker is rounded, and most of its front and top are protected by a grille that covers its subwoofer, six mid-woofers, and seven tweeters (two of which fire upward for spatial audio).PCMAG, PCMAG, 12 Nov. 2024
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One big risk to the tax titles of the IRA is a possible Republican move to cap its currently uncapped energy tax incentives, which could significantly slim down credits that many now expect to cost upward of $1 trillion.Nick Sobczyk, Axios, 5 Nov. 2024
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The Bee Cave City Council entered into an interlocal cooperation agreement with Lake Travis Fire Rescue on Tuesday night on dividing costs at the upcoming public safety building in the city.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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With travel and lodging costs, artists often pony up as much as $3,000 for a two-day window to show their works and make enough money to last until the next market.Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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The city charged about $800 in rent, and during a good year, Sears earned up to $90,000 before expenses.Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
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Companies often worry that investing in AI personalization won’t pay off quickly enough to justify the expense.Andy Kaiser, Forbes, 22 Nov. 2024
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That beauty adorns a much more capable drive than the Seagate models mentioned above.PCMAG, PCMAG, 17 Nov. 2024
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There’s a new promo picture going around showing a Dusty Milligan with facial hair (see: above) — and listen, not to besmirch his infinity-pool jawline, but the dude looks so much better with that scruff.Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
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Decades of crises, narrow margins, and an over-consolidated supply chain have made airlines cautious with respect to capital outlays.Dean Donovan, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Net of interest earned on the government’s investments, the total was a record $882 billion, the third-largest outlay in the budget, outstripping all other items except Social Security and health care.Jeff Cox, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2024
Adverb
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In death she is borne aloft by mourners as a life-sized plastic Catholic Virgin.Alessa Dominguez, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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Kim excels in performing DHH’s hubristic pride at his own accomplishments and then his scrambling, desperate desire to keep things aloft; Eggold, a discovery for this audience member, conjures actorly vanity and obliviousness to pitch-perfect effect.Daniel D'Addario, Variety, 2 Oct. 2024
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Of the total budget, $10.5 million will be allocated to general fund expenditures.Rachel Royster, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
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This efficiency allows datacenters to store massive amounts of data in smaller footprints, reducing capital expenditure and operational costs.Melody Brue, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024
Adverb
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The bigger 45-mm size offers a day or more of battery life, and the Auto Bedtime Mode is handy when the day is over.Simon Hill, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2024
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Head on over to Nordstrom, where beauty deals span hair styling tools, perfume sets from luxury brands, and skincare sets to fight winter's upcoming dryness.Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 22 Nov. 2024
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“Overhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overhead. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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