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Example sentences for: overcame

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The identical results with the two bacterial strain backgrounds imply that the cited results with sid2 mutant plants were obtained under conditions in which high levels of bacterial inoculum overcame some effects of the mutation.
In Yardley's affectionate yet dubious portrait of a man he knew only through rambling late-night phone calls, Exley was a classic one-hit wonder, a writer who never overcame his breakthrough.
Finally, though, Zeus overcame his cowardice and grappled with the monster.
Steve Hale and Betsy Alaniz's clients overcame a CIA claim of immunity from judicial scrutiny, and the case is in discovery.
Newsweek 's David Brooks wrote that Bauer "overcame his own financial disadvantages" and joined Dole as the two surviving "Have-Not candidates."