overtake

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

Although Japan and the Netherlands are the favorites to win the group, Sweden could overtake both with a win, provided the Dutch do no better than a draw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

It won’t take much for SpaceX to overtake it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

On its third day as a public company, its market value is poised to overtake that of Amazon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026

She left word with Jacob for him, so that if he did come, he could overtake them along the way.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

I do not think Qualcomm overtakes Nvidia on raw AI performance — but it does not have to.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

But when market speculation overtakes a stock’s actual fundamentals, the risks of a sharp—and painful—stock reversal become even greater.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 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

But Tang’s goal is to show the audience and panelists how easily our actions can be twisted when passion overtakes reason.

From Salon ● Oct. 22, 2025

The years he spoke of are now past; the night comes when a bitter marriage overtakes me, desolate as I am, deprived by Zeus of all the sweets of life.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

Last term, when there were both more cases and more referrals to the full court, the appeals to the shadow docket finally overtook those to the merits docket.

From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026

SK Hynix, which overtook Samsung as the market’s biggest stock this week, tumbled 12.5%, while Samsung fell 13.2%.

From Barron's ● Jun. 23, 2026

SK Hynix overtook Samsung Electronics as South Korea’s most valuable company, reaching a $1.362 trillion market capitalization.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026

Along with such franchise tropes as face-huggers and rampaging xenomorphs, ship design was the key area where homage overtook the series’ emphasis on new locations, lifeforms and themes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

We couldn’t hurry because of the wagon, so he soon overtook us and walked purposefully down the street ahead as though he knew exactly where he was going.

From "Jacob Have I Loved" by Katherine Paterson

Now it has been overtaken globally by China’s BYD—which began, duh, as a battery company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026

Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaca, and his kingdom has been overtaken by suitors crudely courting his wife’s hand.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

While Three Lions does get played inside the stadium at full-time, it is Wonderwall by Oasis which has overtaken it as the anthem to unite players and fans.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The room is overtaken with projections, scenes of bustling New York traffic paired with bachelor-pad-like guitar riffs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026

He was overtaken by another feeling equally as strong.

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

“This isn’t about Huawei overtaking the U.S. on a hairpin turn,” said Qingyuan Lin, a semiconductor analyst at Bernstein.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

The sector now makes up 30 percent of all Mexican products shipped to the United States, overtaking the automotive industry as the largest component of exports.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

And this overtaking, if you want, is the flip side of the energy starvation.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

The number of ships using this Omani route grew to a peak of 28 vessels on 25 June, Kpler's data shows, overtaking the number of transits via the Iranian route.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

“There would be less chance of overtaking him, and much danger, too.”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander