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Recent Examples of overhead
Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Gate-checking luggage is primarily due to limited overhead bin space or smaller aircraft.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
While the move is touted as an effort to reduce bureaucratic overhead, it's also criticized for potentially undermining support services for millions of students and borrowers.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Jennifer Raynor, The Conversation, 24 July 2025
After beating the San Diego Padres 3-2, Miami’s ace hung around with his two children inside the Marlins’ clubhouse, introducing the three-month-old daughter on his hip to teammates as loud, Latin music blared overhead.
—Cameron Priester, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025
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Adverb
Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks When: around midnight, August 12-15
Where: northeast to overhead
The Perseids reach their maximum overnight on Aug. 12-13 evening, but a 91%-lit gibbous moon will wash out all but the brightest.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 31 July 2025
Gate-checking luggage is primarily due to limited overhead bin space or smaller aircraft.
—Zach Wichter, USA Today, 30 July 2025
Adjective
The overhead set pieces light up during the blue-tinged memory sequences, with lighting designer Brandon Wardell and sound designer Thomas Dixon working in tandem with Livaditis to toggle back and forth in time as the play inches toward revealing how the narrator’s own life was turned upside down.
—Emily McClanathan, Chicago Tribune, 22 July 2025
While the move is touted as an effort to reduce bureaucratic overhead, it's also criticized for potentially undermining support services for millions of students and borrowers.
—Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 July 2025
Noun
Or the deep blue of the open ocean, where tuna flash like silver and seabirds wheel overhead.
—Jennifer Raynor, The Conversation, 24 July 2025
After beating the San Diego Padres 3-2, Miami’s ace hung around with his two children inside the Marlins’ clubhouse, introducing the three-month-old daughter on his hip to teammates as loud, Latin music blared overhead.
—Cameron Priester, Sun Sentinel, 24 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for overhead
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Tuesday’s fundraisers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and Big Sky, Montana, took in more than $2 million apiece, while an event in Nantucket, Massachusetts, raised upward of $5 million, according to Vance aides.—
Christian Datoc,
The Washington Examiner,
1 Aug. 2025
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Even a few years ago, a good 996 Carrera 2 coupe could be had for as little as $10,000, but those days are gone, and decent examples today will fetch well upward of $20,000.—
Robert Ross,
Robb Report,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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To address this, take a top-down approach by estimating the cloud budget per cost center, identifying all the accounts tied to a cost center and distributing the total cost center budget across each account while leaving aside a small buffer.—
Rakshana Balakrishnan,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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The result, which the research firm Brattle published this week, was 535 megawatts, equal to adding a big hydro dam or a half-sized nuclear reactor at a fraction of the cost.—
Tim McDonnell,
semafor.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This is in sharp contrast to the effort and expense involved in seeing a human therapist.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Food, utilities are rising, so providers find creative ways to cut Robertson and Taylor said the cost of food is their second biggest expense outside of payroll.—
Beki San Martin,
Freep.com,
7 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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This year is so far slightly above, but largely in line, with price increases in 2023 (2.7%) and 2024 (2.5%).—
Mary Whitfill Roeloffs,
Forbes.com,
4 Aug. 2025
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If the more complete data comes in well above or below the preliminary data, revisions can be exacerbated by the BLS’ seasonal adjustments, which sometimes need to be recalculated.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
4 Aug. 2025
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Chief Financial Officer Amy Hood said the company would spend upwards of $30 billion in the current quarter, which would be at least 50% more than the outlay during the same period a year earlier.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
31 July 2025
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Of the total, $50.7 million has been committed through state capital outlay, including $37.2 million in the 2025 capital budget.—
Nolan McKendry,
The Washington Examiner,
20 July 2025
Adverb
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Ayatollah Khomeini, appearing here on an image held aloft by protesters, was a scholar of Islamic law in his late seventies who hadn’t set foot in Iran for nearly fifteen years.—
Daniel Immerwahr,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Smoke aloft is expected to descend on Friday, increasing smoke near the surface & reducing visibility & air quality.—
Elise Schmelzer,
Denver Post,
1 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Under previous administrations, the FEMA administrator was able to personally sign off on large expenditures, according to Deanne Criswell, who led the agency under the Biden administration.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
7 Aug. 2025
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Senate Bill 213 creates more transparency by requiring state agencies to report on advertising expenditures annually, beginning Jan. 1. Carbon sequestration in the Mahomet Aquifer is banned beginning Jan. 1, and with Senate Bill 1723, the Mahomet Aquifer Advisory Study Commission is created.—
Greg Bishop,
The Washington Examiner,
3 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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With the end of the first decade, the age of experimentation at Ethereum is over.—
Lawrence Wintermeyer,
Forbes.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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At that point, the conversation ended, but the issue wasn’t over.—
Ashley Vega,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Overhead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overhead. Accessed 13 Aug. 2025.
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