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Discover LudwigThe phrase "are overall" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to summarize or provide a general assessment of a situation or group of items.
Example: "The results of the survey are overall positive, indicating a high level of satisfaction among participants."
Alternatives: "generally" or "in general".
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are overall
noun
A garment worn over other clothing to protect it; a coverall or boiler suit. A garment, for manual labor or for casual wear, often made of a single piece of fabric, with long legs and a bib upper, supported from the shoulders with straps, and having several large pockets and loops for carrying tools.
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Those in Australia are, overall, the most engaged and interested in how we live our values.
"Immigrants are overall less likely than natives to receive state benefits or tax credits.
Pattern-recognition technology is constantly advancing, and so, thanks to Moore's Law, are overall processing speeds and storage capacity.
A function can have several local maxima, not all of which are overall ("global") maxima.
Takings are overall 6% up on last weekend, and an encouraging 21% up on the equivalent session from 2015, when Ted 2 was the highest new entrant.
There are overall 22 gestures to binary feature vector events.
The figures for judicial review quoted by the prime minister are overall figures.
LMS results are overall statistically more accurate than IRL1 and SBL but less so than OMP.
Macroprogramming-based DSMSs are overall similar to classical macroprogramming approaches aimed at WSAN.
Our results may imply that simpler measurement schemes are overall appealing when using large powers.
In the system, there are overall N RBs available for data transmission.
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