- past participle of overtake.
overtaken
Example Sentences
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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
For instance, Argentina have six points and cannot be overtaken in Group J because they have beaten the two teams on three points, Austria and Algeria.
From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026
Memory-chip maker SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics to become South Korea’s most valuable company amid the AI-driven chip boom.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 22, 2026
SpaceX has only been public for a few days, and already it has overtaken Amazon in the rankings of the largest stocks.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
You might not notice the water rising as one wave follows another, but if you wait half an hour, the dry patch you were sitting on is in danger of being overtaken by water.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
