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The phrase "are overcoming" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an ongoing action of successfully dealing with or conquering challenges or obstacles.
Example: "Despite the difficulties, the team are overcoming their challenges and making progress on the project."
Alternatives: "are conquering" or "are surmounting".
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are overcoming
verb
To surmount (a physical or abstract obstacle); to prevail over, to get the better of.
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"They are overcoming fear to do this".
But primary pressures are overcoming that constraint.
Today, people are overcoming the idea that he is bleak and inaccessible.
Community entrepreneurs are overcoming the social challenges that are defeating the agencies of the state.
We must continue to do that, to show we are overcoming injustice, and setbacks.
In the paper, the authors explain how they are overcoming the problems posed by lithium.
Cate and Estrela are overcoming major challenges to get K. marxianus to industrial potential.
"Southern Californians are overcoming their fears of subway germs, and reversing the American directive to go west," Friedman writes.
But now the evolutionists are overcoming prejudices and accepting that microbes and symbiosis are creative evolutionary forces.
Across the UK, there are many examples of successful transformations that are overcoming financial constraints and protecting vital youth services.
I take it this is how insurers are overcoming the switchers – by clobbering us with high fees".
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