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overwhelming

/oh-ver-hwel-ming, -wel-/US // ˌoʊ vərˈʰwɛl mɪŋ, -ˈwɛl- //UK // (ˌəʊvəˈwɛlmɪŋ) //

铺天盖地,压倒性的,铺天盖地的,势不可挡

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : that overwhelms; overpowering: The temptation to despair may become overwhelming.
    • : so great as to render resistance or opposition useless: an overwhelming majority.

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Examples

  • These sky-high stakes make it clear that the first clinical rollouts of human genome editing need overwhelming justification.

  • In the mid-1990s, few anticipated the overwhelming pervasiveness of today’s social-media behemoths—or the volume and variety of deleterious material they would spread.

  • Significant majorities of Democrats, Republicans, and independents recognize access to high-quality, affordable childcare as an important issue, with overwhelming support among men and women and across major racial and ethnic categories.

  • What we have seen over the last few months, and most recently with the brutal police shooting of Jacob Blake, is overwhelming.

  • Planning a wedding can be overwhelming, she says, and the pandemic makes it that much worse.

  • Dean Teresa A. Sullivan praised the “overwhelming response by this community to condemn the evil acts” reported by Rolling Stone.

  • An overwhelming amount of subtleties and implications were going over my head.

  • There was no assassin but despite the overwhelming presence of troops and FBI agents, violent incidents still occurred.

  • An overwhelming majority of yes votes—89 of them—came from Republican men.

  • Even in deep red, rural states, universal background checks enjoy overwhelming support.

  • The contrast between the open street and the enclosed stuffiness of the dim and crowded interior was overwhelming.

  • Thus it was that he himself created the morale which enabled him again and again to conquer against overwhelming odds.

  • So long as Christians have an overwhelming majority who will not touch the drains, diphtheria must continue.

  • Blake and Cuesta were each defeated by an overwhelming combination of the different French armies.

  • The 1851 State Constitution was ratified by the voters by an overwhelming majority at the next election.