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overtake

[oh-ver-teyk] / ˌoʊ vərˈteɪk /


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Rybakina is guaranteed to overtake Sabalenka if she reaches the semi-finals, while Pegula and Gauff could pounce if they win the title.

From BBC Sep. 7, 2026

Is there a chance someone might overtake it, if only for a moment?

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

For Chinese companies trying to overtake American incumbents, releasing model weights earns trust, wins developers and makes their technology the default foundation for new applications.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 30, 2026

Aimée thinks that Millennials in particular have so much nostalgia for catalogs because they were the generation that witnessed e-commerce overtake mail order.

From Salon Jul. 18, 2026

At last numbness began to overtake her, and she felt sleep begin to envelop her like quicksand….

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

By spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, it overtakes the record set by American crooner Frankie Laine with his track I Believe, in 1953.

From BBC Jul. 31, 2026

See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.

From MarketWatch Jun. 16, 2026

“I speculate it will be a while—if ever—before Amazon overtakes Walmart in retailing,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 20, 2026

He overtakes two of his compatriots who have won eight golds at Winter Olympics -- former cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie, and former biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.

From Barron's Feb. 15, 2026

The sadness overtakes you; it’s like saying you’ll get a soup and a sandwich at the end of the year, and that’s it.

From "Everything Sad Is Untrue" by Daniel Nayeri

Cloudflare, an internet-infrastructure company that provides web security and bot-detection tools to millions of websites, says bots overtook humans on its network in June, generating 57% of all traffic it sees.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

Taylor, 20, is also from Burgess Hill and was riding his legal motorbike to work one day when he overtook two bikes as they pulled out from a junction.

From BBC Aug. 20, 2026

It used to be the other round, and last year was the first year boys overtook girls in this respect since 2018.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 1, 2026

The northmen on their bear-paws soon began to outdistance the rest of the host They overtook the knights in the main column, then Ser Godry Farring and his vanguard.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Sales of its namesake brand peaked in 1970, the heyday of the Beetle and the Bus, before it was overtaken by Japanese rivals that proved better at adapting to evolving American tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

“Natural gas has also overtaken oil as the primary inflation concern for European bond traders,” Danske Bank’s Jesper Fjarstedt says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Now all of that has been overtaken by his sudden and shocking death.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s” $360 million.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2026

Mr. Haber opened the show with the announcement that Anna May Wong would not be participating, as she had been overtaken by an ailment.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

In Norris' favour is that overtaking is expected to be especially difficult.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

The US senator spoke to BBC Newsnight about his concerns about artificial intelligence overtaking humanity.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

And that lack of width, on the eye at least, suggests overtaking will be virtually impossible.

From BBC Sep. 10, 2026

The Dutchman briefly took the lead from Russell on lap 11, before the Briton re-passed him three laps later, Antonelli overtaking the Red Bull into the second chicane.

From BBC Sep. 6, 2026

He slowed, as a large black truck sped past, overtaking them with a spray of slush.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman




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