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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overweigh .
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Examples
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When the reality of the Cant's overweighs the memories of the Can's, and the unbearable pain makes even the most beautiful of past Can's seem blurred and harder to recall.
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But I suspect the joy of winning $100 and “being a winner” overweighs the discouragment of losing $2 fifty times.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Transparency Doesn’t Prevent Pork: 2007
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Now certainly the media always overweighs the negative.
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Now certainly the media always overweighs the negative.
Archive 2005-01-01 2005
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Water is of both chaos and order, yet it is order, and represents order, for its structure overweighs its parts-
Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004
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KING: And that overweighs the fact that you could be covering Hillary-Giuliani.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Maury Povich Plays `Twenty One' Questions - February 17, 2000 2000
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If the employer does feel that the principle of control of an enterprise by its owner is at stake, he may hold out longer, until he actually loses more by the strike than he would by conceding the demands of the strikers, but even then he balances psychological cost against monetary cost, and when the latter overweighs the former he becomes receptive to a settlement.
Introduction to Non-Violence Theodore Paullin
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It is conjecturally similar, a heavy rectangle which quite overweighs the church; plain, with its stiff pilasters and two stories of rounded windows; without grace or proper proportion, but pleasing by the unblemished severity of its lines.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose
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It has a principle, and that principle is a patriotic desire to strengthen Prussia, which particular appetite overweighs all general human morals and far outweighs all special
A General Sketch of the European War The First Phase Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Still, the probable safety, and therefore feasibility, of this route overweighs all defects as to distance.
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