overrules

present tense third-person singular of overrule

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of overrules The legislation, Senate Bill (SB) 79, overrules local zoning to boost development in busy areas of the Golden State, allowing developers to build tall apartment and condo buildings of up to nine stories in single-family areas near certain transit stops. Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Oct. 2025 The decision overrules a lower court's decision that had blocked USAID cuts. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overrules
Verb
  • If Giolito rejects the offer and signs with another team, the Red Sox would receive a draft pick after the fourth round as compensation.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The business software maker on Wednesday unveiled an optimistic, multiyear financial roadmap that rejects the sluggish-growth narrative that has been dogging the stock.
    Natasha Abellard, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The anti-American side focuses exclusively on the tragedies, usually makes slavery the chief argument for the prosecution, and dismisses the triumphs as hypocritical rhetoric.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 28 Oct. 2025
  • Some critics have interpreted the ending as a glib last-minute twist that threatens to neutralize the story’s potency and dismisses the seriousness of the movie’s premise.
    Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Cuomo denies Bennett’s allegations.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Prince Andrew denies Virginia Giuffre relationship In 2011, Andrew quit his role as Britain's roving trade ambassador, partly because of his friendship with Epstein.
    Michael Holden, USA Today, 22 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • If Taiwan refuses to capitulate in a quarantine or blockade, an invasion could follow.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Selma Blair refuses to sugarcoat what life with multiple sclerosis looks like.
    Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 23 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • And anybody who ignores these issues does so at their peril.
    Kate Plummer, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
  • This willfully blinkered vision, or, more precisely, reëlection platform, ignores the cost in global opinion along with the moral and political fractures within Israel itself.
    David Remnick, New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2025

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“Overrules.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overrules. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.

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