The phrase "overwritten with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something which has been written on or over an existing surface, such as when someone writes over an older document with new information. For example: "The old document had been overwritten with new policies and regulations."
And a frescoed wall, its Botticelli-esque figures overwritten with graffiti, slides in and out of view.
By using the aforementioned utility, every sector of the hard drive is overwritten with zeros, thereby destroying all data.
In 2004, Riedel and the artist Dennis Löesch produced their own Frieze Art Fair catalog: it was the official catalog of the London fair overwritten with their own text and images.
"I'd be hard put to choose between Christian Mississippi missionaries who fall in love with multilingual Romanian trollops and try to figure them out by reading 'The Hole in the Flag' " — his 1991 memoir about returning to his native Romania — "or rare-book librarians who want to know if the defaced volume of poetry overwritten with obscene verses in 1970 was my work".
The case study revealed that the "target" can be overwritten with time, while "common" does not mean commonly defined.
Thinking of human biological functions as a code, means that many diseases are just coding errors that can be overwritten with the introduction of new "software".
Books are much harder to overwrite with a different message.
Mr. Guterson goes the other way, overwriting with fussy five-dollar words (pusillanimous, desiccated, orotund), where simple ones would suffice.
A spokesperson for the judges said that some of the nominated extracts "fall into the classic bad sex mistake of overwriting, with mixed metaphors, uncomfortable similes, or becoming so hyperbolic they strains credulity".
Of course the whole thing is operated on a big shared network so they can roll out updates and stuff, so it just pings the park and finds some willing participants, which it overwrites with its own firmware.
Overwriting with "one pass of random data" is sufficient to prevent any recovery of data.
