exceed
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It takes 19 years to cumulatively exceed the amount your pension gives you.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Making a return on the vast sums being invested, which already exceed the railroad or internet booms, assumes sales growth unlike anything in history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
Price recommends using hearing protection whenever sound levels exceed 85 decibels.
From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026
An analysis published by the MoD in December 2023, under the previous government, found the department's most recent equipment plan was forecast to exceed its budget by £16.9bn.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
This violates a basic principle of numbers called the axiom of Archimedes, which says that if you add something to itself enough times, it will exceed any other number in magnitude.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing exceed
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