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overtake

[oh-ver-tayk] / ˌoʊ vərˈteɪk /


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When I put it to Meta Glasses' head of product Ankit Brahmbhatt that I thought they might overtake the original camera-enabled glasses in sales, there was a pregnant pause.

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026

The inclusion of a sprint event in Monaco will inevitably raise eyebrows, given it is almost impossible to overtake around the historic street circuit.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Sluis expects direct-to-consumer purchases may eventually overtake wholesale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

The screen is filled with the dizzying image of the distance from where she’s sitting to the river below, the water underneath her strong enough to overtake anything in its path.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

That is when a fire spreads so suddenly and rapidly that it overtakes personnel or equipment, cutting off escape routes and forcing trapped firefighters to deploy an emergency, last-resort shelter tent.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Even when they’re ahead of his pace, they know it’s only a matter of time until the American overtakes them and leaves them in the dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 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

Despite gaining an early lead with ChatGPT, rival Anthropic overtook OpenAI in second-quarter revenue.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Further down, Osaka-Kobe-Kyoto and Paris overtook Los Angeles, which dropped two places to 12th.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Tomkins, whose vehicle was not involved in the collision, overtook Ahmed at 78mph shortly before the crash, prosecutors say.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

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

The Mellower rolled the sherry around in his mouth and pronounced it quite the best he had tasted since an unfortunate accident overtook his wine cellar.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

“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

Several years ago he became increasingly frustrated with the professionalism that has overtaken the larger Southland high schools — he has been outspoken against the constant stream of transfers — so he had an idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Lately, however, products from Chinese and European rivals have overtaken the Model Y in a number of fundamental metrics.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026

And there's been a further decline in the number of entries for French, which was overtaken in popularity by Spanish for the first time last year.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Baguio is home of the Philippine Military Academy and Camp John Hay, an American base that has been overtaken by the Japanese.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Although many of the gangs have been around for decades, El Issaoui says they have been "re-branded - with the new generation overtaking the old".

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Pickford became England's highest appearance maker at World Cups, overtaking Peter Shilton when he started in England's 2026 quarter-final win over Norway.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

He was unable to shake Verstappen, who was always about 0.5secs behind but never quite close enough to try a move into Turn One, the only significant overtaking place.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

The Baku street circuit has a long straight that affords good overtaking possibilities and has a reputation for producing incident-packed races.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

He then marched on Mark Antony’s camp at Actium, overtaking his troops, seizing his equipment, and scattering his allies.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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