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- verb Past participle of
override
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Examples
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Designing devices to be remotely overridden is a bad idea
Boing Boing 2008
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What, though if, from the subclass, you wish to call the overridden method in your superclass?
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The bad effects of excess glucocorticoids in the brain -- no new neurons, problems with memory and learning -- were apparently "overridden" in the rats getting it on by the "hedonic value," that is, the pleasure quotient, of the stressor (here, sex), they wrote.
Thea Singer: Stress Relief and More Brain Cells? The Secret Could Be in the Bedroom Thea Singer 2010
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That is the source of the "general duty" clause in the orthodox position, and though liberals believe that this duty can sometimes be "overridden," even they suppose, as the orthodox position maintains, that the duty of obedience remains in some submerged form, so that a man does well to accept punishment in recognition of that duty.
A Special Supplement: Taking Rights Seriously Dworkin, Ronald 1970
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The costs, quantities and discounts off all items can be 'overridden' at this point to suite the quote without affecting the actual database items.
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Given the huge swathes of EU legislation since the early 70's could you care to tell us how many times the ECJ has "overridden" our Constitution since?
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The costs, quantities and discounts off all items can be 'overridden' at this point to suite the quote without affecting the actual database items.
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one of my colleagues is actually currently breaking the fire code, thanks to excess students being "overridden" into his class.
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"overridden" but other circumstances, even something as simple as breaking a promise.
unknown title 2009
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But Nixon argued that even if a presidential veto had been overridden by Congress or even if he had signed the bill, he still had presidential authority to impound funds and prevent them from being spent.
The Conservative Assault on the Constitution Erwin Chemerinsky 2010
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