Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an overwhelming or overpowering manner.
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- adverb In an
overwhelming manner;very greatly orintensely .
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- adverb incapable of being resisted
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Examples
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This summer he grew increasingly annoyed by what he called the "overwhelmingly male-centered style, jokes, segments and guests" on the show.
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I couldn't have imagined it lo those 28 years ago when then-candidate Harold Washington told me which 16 African-American wards he needed to win -- overwhelmingly -- in order to be the next mayor of Chicago, because so few white people were likely to vote for him.
Rebecca Sive: Our Mayor's Race Is a Tale of Two Cities Rebecca Sive 2010
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Party insiders acknowledge that the Day and Morgan races have little chance in overwhelmingly Democratic Wards 1 and 5.
GOP hitching ride on Fenty's coattails into four council races Tim Craig 2010
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So, teabagging hicks now claim that the Democratic Process, whereby our President and Congress were voted in overwhelmingly as a Majority, is a “totalitarian tactic”.
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Party insiders acknowledge that the Day and Morgan races have little chance in overwhelmingly Democratic Wards 1 and 5.
GOP hitching ride on Fenty's coattails into four council races Tim Craig 2010
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I couldn't have imagined it lo those 28 years ago when then-candidate Harold Washington told me which 16 African-American wards he needed to win -- overwhelmingly -- in order to be the next mayor of Chicago, because so few white people were likely to vote for him.
Rebecca Sive: Our Mayor's Race Is a Tale of Two Cities Rebecca Sive 2010
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UPDATED 2: 30 P.M. Of all the hot-button national issues that rarely get an airing in overwhelmingly Democratic D.C., abortion is the one that tends to get discussed least of all in city politics.
GOP delegate candidate to air graphic anti-abortion ads on D.C. stations Mike DeBonis 2010
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Yet the student bodies of the elite colleges are still drawn overwhelmingly from the upper middle class.
The tea party warns of a New Elite. They're right. Charles Murray 2010
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Why all the complaining, the lot of you, voted these idiots in overwhelmingly, falling for a bunch of lies, promises, that were not meant to be kept ..
Biden: Too soon to say if more troops needed in Afghanistan 2009
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The discomfiting explanation is that despite need-blind admissions policies, the stellar applicants still hail overwhelmingly from the upper middle class and above.
The tea party warns of a New Elite. They're right. Charles Murray 2010
alejinha commented on the word overwhelmingly
overwhelmingly voted mean that was voted by the majority
September 20, 2010