as in veto
the doing away with something by formal action
Citizens are advocating for a congressional override of the president's proposal.
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as in to veto
to make (something) no longer valid
Don't let the anticipatory anxiety override your excitement about starting grad school. Upper management reserves the right to override any decisions made by supervisors.
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Recent Examples of override
Nina Giraldo,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
It was vetoed, the override failed, and Chicago entered another summer with the same insufficient tools as the last.
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Desmon Yancy,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
24 June 2026
Supporters gathered at the Georgia State Capitol recently urging legislators to override the governor's veto.
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Nakell Williams,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
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Noun
Judges could override life or death verdicts with judicial override, the report said, but in 92% of overrides Alabama judges imposed the death penalty.
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Nina Giraldo,
CNN Money,
9 June 2026
It was vetoed, the override failed, and Chicago entered another summer with the same insufficient tools as the last.
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Desmon Yancy,
Chicago Tribune,
2 June 2026
Verb
Lawmakers can override the veto with a two-thirds majority in each chamber.
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Claire Carter,
The Washington Examiner,
24 June 2026
Supporters gathered at the Georgia State Capitol recently urging legislators to override the governor's veto.
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Nakell Williams,
CBS News,
23 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for override
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The political landscape around data centers has since changed since Newsom’s veto in October, said Dan Schnur, a political science professor who teaches at UC Berkeley and USC.
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Kansas lawmakers last year failed to get the two-thirds support needed to call themselves into a special session on redistricting and override a potential veto by the Democratic governor.
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Despite the extra funding, the budget continues a trend of relying on reserves, shifting funds, borrowing and suspending debt payments to balance state spending.
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Earlier this month, Anthropic disabled customer access to both Mythos and Fable to comply with the US government’s order to suspend all use by foreign nationals — including Anthropic employees themselves.
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Spiker said a 20-year-old woman was lying in the sand when she was run over by a California State Parks lifeguard vehicle.
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This mile and an eighth run over the main track was inaugurated in 1982 and has long been a stepping stone towards Breeders’ Cup glory and beyond.
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This White House championed the repeal, enacted by Republican majorities in Congress, of the Inflation Reduction Act’s tax credits for EVs and continues to treat EVs as a fringe product.
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While Sacramento police had not enforced the ban for years, the repeal of the 1988 ordinance and the signs along Franklin Boulevard and Broadway was a milestone.
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Ballot measure proponents had a Thursday evening deadline to withdraw their proposals.
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Patients might be women in their 30s with an autoimmune disease like lupus or people of any age exposed to such toxins as methamphetamines or, in the past, the fen-phen appetite suppressant drug of the 1990s, later withdrawn after being linked to heart disease.
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Thursday’s mail was hand-stamped upon delivery.
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The company that stamps its name on a custom chip and the company that captures the durable profit from it are rarely the same.
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Before Franklin took the stage, however, organizers canceled the concert because of lightning and approaching storms.
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Katy Perry‘s return to the Belgium stage will have to wait a little longer after her Werchter concert was canceled on Friday.
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Britons struggled to cope this week as the record June temperature was smashed three days in a row.
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Video and photos shared on social media appear to show the aircraft plummeting to the ground after smashing a large hole in the 108-story CITIC Tower, located in the Chinese capital's business district.
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“Override.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/override. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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