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UK
/ˌəʊvəɹˈaɪdɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈoʊvɝˌɹaɪdɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈoʊvɝˌɹaɪdɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having superior power and influence
the predominant mood among policy-makers is optimism
How To Use overriding In A Sentence
- The overriding principle is not to offend the sensitive by immoderate cachinnation at an inappropriate joke. Times, Sunday Times
- If Amy weren't under guard, she'd be working on overriding the overrides and getting control back.
- One overriding principle governs farmers' markets everywhere: the producer sells direct to the consumer.
- A satisfactory and lasting result in the water context cannot be achieved and should not be attempted by wholly divorcing consideration of the overriding conflict.
- That is the overriding priority and that is what he is good at. The Sun
- Complementing this negative case against the claims of traditional political-military history to be of overriding importance, Herder also has positive reasons for focusing instead on the “innerness” of human life in history. Johann Gottfried von Herder
- If counterintelligence becomes the overriding mission, the obvious answer is the solution first offered by Sen.
- On 8 April 1962, when ninety percent of metropolitan voters approved the Evian Accords, that overriding objective was finally achieved.
- Finally there are federal judges, who have a general and overriding authority over the other levels of jurisdiction.
- Alphabetize. Alphabetize. This doesn't help navigate your attributes, but it does help prevent you from duplicating an attribute and accidentally overriding a previous setting.