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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
overfly .
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Examples
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A satellite on polar orbit effectively 'overflies' the entire earth as the earth rotates underneath it.
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A satellite on polar orbit effectively 'overflies' the entire earth as the earth rotates underneath it.
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The orbit overflies all of the world's most populated areas.
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The orbit overflies all of the world's most populated areas.
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Third, Obama should work with the Japanese government to display the capabilities of US-made Japanese ballistic missile defenses, and Japan's willingness to use them if a North Korea missile overflies its territory.
Peter Henne: A Progressive Strategy for US-North Korea Relations 2009
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The orbit overflies all of the world's most populated areas.
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The orbit overflies all of the world's most populated areas.
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Lowell declares that 'The Progress of Poesy' 'overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle,' and Mr. Gosse observes of both poems that the qualities to be regarded are 'originality of structure, the varied music of their balanced strophes, as of majestic antiphonal choruses, answering one another in some antique temple, and the extraordinary skill with which the evolution of the theme is observed and restrained.'
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher
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Poesy, '"says Lowell," overflies all other English lyrics like an eagle ...
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886
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"I wonder if the artic satellite that missed 190,000 sq miles of ice overflies Antaractica! ..."
Scientific Blogging 2009
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