- present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).
surpasses
Example Sentences
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Savannah Guthrie continued her calls for kidnappers to return her mother Nancy Guthrie, as the investigation into the elder Guthrie’s disappearance surpasses its six-month mark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
In an “extreme” scenario, AI surpasses human productivity across most knowledge-work tasks, performing nearly all of them autonomously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hubinger said Anthropic is "trying its best", but does not yet have a plan to ensure an AI system that surpasses human capabilities would obey its creators.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
The fee for Bouaddi surpasses the £58.9m paid by Manchester United to sign French defender Leny Yoro, also from Lille, in 2024.
From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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
