The phrase "about to overcome" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of successfully dealing with a challenge or obstacle.
Example: "With determination and hard work, she felt she was about to overcome her fears and take the stage."
Alternatives: "on the brink of overcoming" or "nearly overcoming".
In Field of Poppies, you can hardly stop the feeling in yourself that, could Klimt's landscape only be straightened out, the slightly obscured pattern would be clearly visible - whereas, for the moment, it is merely shy but about to overcome its embarrassment and show us everything.
When his enemies are about to overcome him, he has only to display it, holding it by its snaky locks, and this bloodstained booty becomes an invincible weapon in the hero's hand.
I felt the arc of a panic attack about to overcome me.
He bounced around for two seasons in an Italian league only to discover — just as he was about to overcome the language barrier — that he was actually in Grenada, having been snookered by an amateur travel agent who was trying to break into the wire-fraud game.
3 55 PM – 4 20 PM In Conversation with Samantha Jérusalmy (Elaia Partners), Frédéric Mazzella (BlaBlaCar) and Mounia Rkha (Isai Ventures) Now that Paris is about to overcome London when it comes to startup investments, all eyes are on the French tech ecosystem.
Mr. Bloom, as is his custom, leaps about, trying to overcome his incurable blandness, and is upstaged by special effects, musical cues, octopus tentacles and pieces of wood.
"We're learning lessons about human nature in general, about how to overcome people's inertia and sticking with what they know," he said.
It's Hard Not to Hate You is the memoir about learning to overcome what I hated about others.
I think of Thin is the New Happy as the memoir about learning to overcome what I hated about myself.
Robert Dougherty writes that the episode possesses similar themes to "Tabula Rasa" – "Walkabout" is about "being able to overcome the past and start over".
