- present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).
surpasses
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According to the team, this approach delivers performance that surpasses existing types of spectrometers in several key areas, including designs based on light dispersion, Fourier transforms, and computational reconstruction.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026
Companies raised $1.08 trillion across 5,566 deals over the first nine months of the year, a figure that surpasses the full-year totals reached in the past four years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
While the total was down from the previous year’s record high of 95 entanglements, California still surpasses all other U.S. states in the number of cases.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
"It reminded me that we're capable of doing unbelievable things when how badly we want something matches and surpasses the difficulty of achieving it," he said.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
This is the only religious idea I know that surpasses the endless number of infinitely old cycling universes in Hindu cosmology.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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