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- verb Past participle of
overshadow - adjective
superseded by, covered up by,overtaken oreclipsed
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Examples
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The way Alex Rodriguez dominated AL third basemen this season, Martin overshadowed the rest of his contemporaries at catcher.
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The Capitals 'win overshadowed Joe Sakic's 1,500th point.
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Stanford's win overshadowed a sterling performance by Jerome Harrison, who rushed 29 times for 218 yards and scored a TD for the Cougars.
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The public turmoil and the Bakken-Flowers win overshadowed a long-term trend in the sport: The German teams have caught up with and perhaps surpassed the Americans.
USATODAY.com - World Championships preview: Women's bobsled 2003
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Revenue from mobile services fell 0.7 percent as a drop in voice-calls overshadowed a 41 percent increase in data usage.
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His title was overshadowed by Djokovic's injury, but it shouldn't go unremarked upon: Murray looked awfully strong.
SI.com 2011
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It was okay having him home, but I dwelt on him leaving so much it kind of overshadowed him actually being here.
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But isn't it a bit of a stretch, even for TIME magazine, to claim this has "overshadowed" the Pope's declaration of the Year for Priests?
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He said the investigation of the accident "overshadowed" day-to-day operations and occupied the attention of management.
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Let me jump in here, because I've got one more -- something I want to move on to, and that is another story that's been kind of overshadowed this week, Nevada Senator John Ensign and his sex scandal.
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