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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
overweigh .
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Examples
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"Thurgood had a real soft spot, but his belief in principle overweighed any amount of unnecessary mercy," Howard said.
Terrence Howard Draws from Nelson Mandela, Thurgood Marshall for Law & Order: Los Angeles 2010
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In each of the three stories in this paper, I believe that government decision-makers overweighed a simplistic version of economic theory.
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In each of the three stories in this paper, I believe that government decision-makers overweighed a simplistic version of economic theory.
Archive 2008-06-01 2008
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But that is the Miriam trademark which we have all bowed down to at first, then became an irreverent source of amusement, and later embraced as an innate part of the whole package that is overweighed with pure wisdom, nothing else.
A Quartet of disparities: Imelda, Cory, Miriam and Gloria 2009
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Think about it: failure in our national security (9/11); profound distrust in corporate America (Enron, WorldCom, and the subsequent overweighed SOX regulation); and failure in our technology (the Shuttle Columbia disaster, the 2003 blackout, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and poor levee system).
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Think about it: failure in our national security (9/11); profound distrust in corporate America (Enron, WorldCom, and the subsequent overweighed SOX regulation); and failure in our technology (the Shuttle Columbia disaster, the 2003 blackout, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and poor levee system).
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Foreign portfolios are overweighed in dollar assets.
America's Economic Crisis Is Beyond The Reach of Traditional Solutions 2008
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The results, achieved in a tumultuous markets environment, exceeded forecasts given by the company in October and apparently were enough to convince investors that any residual risk to the company from its investing missteps were overweighed by the continued strength of its core operation.
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But as the day progressed, any type of initial gains were overweighed by questions raised about the effectiveness of this plan as well as concern about the Korean economy, especially the rising of the U.S. dollar against the Korean won.
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To be sure, judges of the Ninth Circuit, in United States v. Kincade, (2005), ruled that DNA searches were constitutional when the public's interest in "deterring recidivism," overweighed an individual's right to privacy, and when the individual has a "reduced expectation of privacy."
Alert Congress: Collection of DNA Samples Upon Arrest is Illegal Without Judicial Warrant 2008
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