overtake

Example Sentences

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"I think we both had it under control and it was great. I really enjoyed it. It was exceptionally difficult, this circuit, to break that one-second overtake mode."

From BBC • May 25, 2026

But, thus far, that has not been enough for Steyer to overtake Becerra.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

His omnipresence in public recently has sparked conversations about whether he could overtake Vice President J.D.

From Slate • May 9, 2026

Leclerc, who has spent more than 20 years mastering the art of the overtake since his days in go-karts, compared the whole thing to a videogame power-up: “This is like a mushroom in Mario Kart.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Steam did not overtake water and wind as a source of power until after 1830; in Swift’s Laputa, as in eighteenth-century England, steam power did not replace water power but supplemented it.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton