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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of overarch.

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Examples

  • "It blots and it distorts and, in come respects, kind of overarches but it doesn't extinguish or remove those other accomplishments," Gregg said.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2010

  • "It blots and it distorts and, in come respects, kind of overarches but it doesn't extinguish or remove those other accomplishments," Gregg said.

    CTV News RSS Feed 2010

  • Five things come to mind: CT, number one, counterterrorism; counterproliferation; Iran; East Asia, Korea; and one that overarches all of them: We can't be surprised again.

    CNN Transcript May 18, 2006 2006

  • Our fiscal challenge overarches every major public policy spending and tax issue.

    Election 2006 Continued Wrap up �� The Coming Economic Swoon and Did Republicans Throw the Election? 2006

  • Physicists are scientific realists in the way they are realists about the external world: it's something metaphysical that overarches their work in physics, not a conclusion in physics at all.

    The White Shell; and Duhem's Realism 2005

  • Physicists are scientific realists in the way they are realists about the external world: it's something metaphysical that overarches their work in physics, not a conclusion in physics at all.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • And it does not seem there is any necessary truth that overarches past and present in such a way that it requires us to say that the present state is logically entailed by the past state, at least none that wouldn't highly controversial.

    A Pictorial Doubt about a Form of Determinism 2005

  • And it does not seem there is any necessary truth that overarches past and present in such a way that it requires us to say that the present state is logically entailed by the past state, at least none that wouldn't highly controversial.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • Zigzag streams of bluish white fire dash down upon the sea and rebound, and then take an upward flight till they strike the granite vault that overarches our heads.

    Journey to the Interior of the Earth 2003

  • This set of meta-level needs overarches fundamental-product/service-related needs discussed earlier.

    KEY ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT AND PLANNING NOEL CAPON 2001

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