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Recent Examples of overset
That led to the Saints to overset the edge or overrun the ball carrier, creating huge cutback lanes.
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Lance Reisland, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
McGovern will often overset shaded defensive linemen, which opens up the inside move for defenders.
—John Owning, Dallas News, 1 June 2020
The edge rush can also set up a counter inside move if the tackle continues to overset – as Curry showed here.
—Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
Lance Reisland, cleveland, 23 Dec. 2022
McGovern will often overset shaded defensive linemen, which opens up the inside move for defenders.
—John Owning, Dallas News, 1 June 2020
The edge rush can also set up a counter inside move if the tackle continues to overset – as Curry showed here.
—Jeff McLane, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overset
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In Bangladesh, which saw its government toppled by mass protests in 2024, 53% of the population is under 30.—
John Rennie Short,
The Conversation,
31 Mar. 2026
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Could Iran end up like Libya, where a NATO air campaign in 2011 helped topple a decades-old dictatorship, but paved the way for the disintegration of the Libyan state into a thicket of rival factions and warring militias?—
Ishaan Tharoor,
New Yorker,
30 Mar. 2026
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Place a clean sheet of parchment paper (the same size as the cake) on top of cake and, holding pan and parchment together, flip over in one swift motion to invert cake onto parchment.—
Shilpa Uskokovic,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
1 Apr. 2026
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An open-air concert in the middle of a capital city inverts all of that.—
Yook JiHun,
Popular Science,
26 Mar. 2026
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His ideas precipitated a tectonic crisis of political legitimacy and unleashed a series of continent-wide wars, sometimes featuring millenarian protocommunist sects like the Anabaptists, who sought to overthrow the social order.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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Over the past two decades, officials in Caracas have also repeatedly accused exiles in the city of orchestrating dozens of plots to overthrow the socialist revolution.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
25 Mar. 2026
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In the rough waves, the marine unit capsized and three agents were thrown into the water.—
Kerry Breen,
CBS News,
3 Apr. 2026
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An annual picnic outing for the employees of the Western Electric Company turned tragic on July 24, 1915, when the boat that was to take them from Chicago to Michigan City, Indiana, capsized.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
2 Apr. 2026
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Barcelona defender Gerard Martín was sent off in the second half but the decision was overturned by video review.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Segal had seven of 10 ABS challenges overturned that day.—
Peter Sblendorio,
New York Daily News,
4 Apr. 2026
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Indiana beating the Miami Heat and Toronto upending Orlando means the Hornets remain in 10th place in the conference.—
Roderick Boone,
Charlotte Observer,
30 Mar. 2026
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Israel’s war with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon also is intensifying, while the disruption of the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf has upended the global economy.—
Melanie Lidman,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Mar. 2026
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The tree removal slowly upset the stability of the soil and the groundwater, eventually leading to the flooding that washed out the Harpers’ driveway, according to the family.—
Kenneth R. Gosselin,
Hartford Courant,
5 Apr. 2026
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South Carolina handily upset previously unbeaten UConn 62-48 Friday night after UCLA handled Texas 51-42.—
Greg Cote
April 5,
Miami Herald,
5 Apr. 2026
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“Overset.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overset. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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