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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Things that get overridden can—at least figuratively—be erased and overwritten. It is sometimes difficult to identify eggcorn usages of “overwritten” because many things (like computer disks) can be overwritten. The sighting below is an example where a person is “overwritten”. This too is figurative, but I believe it is an eggcorn usage because the “overridden” notion is really the more appropriate concept.
Powerpedia: Work
I disagreed with Gus on having two separate domains at the time, but I was overwritten. By the time our business owners had their list of interoffice …
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