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Example sentences for: overcome

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When the Irish were on the way up, intent on mastering and merging into American society, they viewed the Great Hunger as a somewhat shameful episode--a tragedy to be cordoned off in the past and overcome.
The second approach to mass customization attempts to overcome some of these problems by optically scanning the customer with light beams in a private area of the store.
According to Applebome, no place in the South has tried harder to overcome the region's harsh racial legacy than Charlotte, N.C.
Slate does nothing to overcome the numerous hurdles it faces to acceptance by Net culture in suggesting that it's OK to engage in a practice which is forbidden (for numerous good reasons)--and which can result in its readers' accounts being revoked.
Many of the college students who visit the ED have mild alcohol problems and are confident they could overcome their alcohol problems if they wanted to.