overtake

Max Verstappen needed just 14 laps and 35 minutes to overtake 100 amateur drivers in an exhibition go-kart race at Silverstone.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 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

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

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

"I think you're going to get a lot of overtakes."

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 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

“He doesn’t need it anymore, does he? It came here when his mortal body was burned. A reminder, I suppose, that no shield is sufficient. In the end, misery overtakes all of you. Even Hercules.”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

In 2021, China overtook the U.S. as the world’s top blueberry grower, and by 2025 its annual production was double what it was in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026

On the way to the waterfall, the family travelled in a bus with two other British families, but as the driver overtook another vehicle he "lost control and went downhill".

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 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

At times, the music overtook the gallery, completely captivating the attention of the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

I can only explain the scientific mania that overtook my father during that spring of ’59 as a symptom of the belief in progress that was infecting everyone back then.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Six months into the war, the supply crunch for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline has overtaken upheaval in the crude-oil market as the energy industry’s primary concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

The Lovell Telescope has been overtaken in size by larger radio telescopes, but has continuously been modernised and remains key to the UK's radio astronomy capability.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

She had no illusions: old plans, if one could ever remember them, the plans that time had overtaken, tended to have a febrile and overoptimistic grip on events.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Even before the race weekend began, drivers were predicting that overtaking would be next to impossible at the new Madring, and they were proved right.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

How is it that we should lay the track out when it comes to overtaking also?'

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

He made remarkable progress up through the field from 19th on the grid, wasting no time in picking off cars in front, minimising any loss from overtaking to his overall race time.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

I felt surprised by the sadness overtaking me.

From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed