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How to use the word overcome in a Sentence?

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I am a son or daughter of Earth, made for justice, Just all of us are , let no man do evil, for in the light of compassion, we find the true strength to overcome the darkness that seeks to shroud our shared humanity.”

Christen Kuikoua

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4 months ago

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri

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12 months ago

This visit is about reaffirming all that unites our two nations. It’s about a commitment to bear one another’s concerns and listen to each other’s dreams. It allows us to overcome every difficulty with great determination. That allows us to move further and faster in space, cyber, technology and all areas that matter most to our future.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
12 months ago

Between 2012 and 2016, I did so much work on myself to overcome that. And I really felt like, oh, I don’t think I struggle with this anymore, and I was so proud of that. And then when I got the concussions, it felt like a lot of that flooded back, i remember feeling like I’m crazy, like I’m right on the edge of insanity.

Helen Maroulis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are in the middle of an important debate, we will overcome it, you are going to Passover, on the eve of Seder you will sit with the families. You can fight a little, not too much, you will come to an agreement. This is our goal is to reach agreements, both among you and among us.

Amir Levy/Getty Images Netanyahu

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Whether Stryke Club’s young sensitive skin, or acne, eczema or their first shave, boys have specific skin needs, we also have to help them overcome this stigma about being a boy and engaging in self care.

Sheilagh Maguiness

Found on CNN
1 year ago

For incels, the reality presented to them by the red pill is that love and sexual satisfaction are commodities that women deny them, and that women, not men, control the sexual aspects of society, under this assumption, sex and relationships become almost like a game with specific challenges to overcome.

Brette Steele

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Even the awards themselves are not enough to overcome the structural racism and sexism that women of color face in Hollywood.

Nancy Wang

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Our president was in denial and our minister of health was in denial. So, it was quite a unique problem that PEPFAR had to overcome, and it did it well.

Salim Abdool Karim

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Murdoch has a history of sacrificing loyal lieutenants, but he does it only in the most extreme circumstances, we know that he hates doing it. We know that he tends to try to fight for his loyalists, even for Ailes, certainly for O’Reilly. But when it’s a necessity to overcome a real threat to his business, he’ll do it.

Jim Rutenberg

Found on CNN
1 year ago

With continual efforts to make improvements, we hope that this means that public health practitioners and policymakers, no matter where they’re from, what their political views might be, or what their personal ideas are, this is something we can come together on because this is an actionable place where we can make a difference in our obesity epidemic, which has felt so just intractable and so difficult to overcome, now, we can think of this not as a foregone conclusion, we can make a difference.

Aruna Chandran

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I was just overcome with so much joy, from just winning Super Bowl-bound, to finding out my wife was going to have Video Ad Feedback The son.

Van Jefferson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There was somewhat of a self-defense claim that needed to be overcome.

Robert Contee

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He has visited with the team a few times but he still gets winded very easily. He’s upbeat and positive and ready to continue to overcome this.

Jordon Rooney

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The problem is solvable, providing housing and jobs are part of it, but that’s the easiest part. It’s the maladaptive habits a person may have picked up to cope with trauma that are hardest to overcome.

Stephen Peck

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Political science research indicates that when a president is perceived as being a ‘strong leader’ they are likely to have positive ratings overall, in Biden’s case, it’s hard to overcome the fact that almost two-thirds think he’s weak.

Republican Daron Shaw

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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1 year ago

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[He was] still able to see the goodness in humanity, still buoyant with a beautiful spirit that lifted everyone around him, not because he was blind to the ugliness, the injustices of the world – no. He saw them clearly. He had lived them. But because he knew we could overcome them.

Prince Harry

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I'm extremely confident in Nick Kyrgios, all the challenges I've overcome in my life, i'm proud to be up here and doing it my own way. Being able to produce tennis like that at Wimbledon, it's a dream come true for any tennis player.

Nick Kyrgios

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am grateful to President Biden for the honor of nominating me, and I wish this administration well as it strives to overcome the paralyzing political gridlock that threatens far more than our nation's border, frankly, the dysfunction threatens America's heart and soul.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Negotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome, ideally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante.

United States

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It's been a frustrating, heartbreaking, unnecessary challenge for a kid who has already overcome so much.

Mac Jaehnert

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The country is going through one of the most serious moments in our history, requiring us to build an alternative path despite any differences in order to overcome the incompetence and authoritarianism that govern us.

Da Silva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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