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

Comins, 52, was nine minutes into a cycling time trial on the A40 near Raglan, Monmouthshire, when Barbu tried to overtake.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 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

Knowing Tamika, she’d probably complained about my campaign to overtake her first-place science fair domination.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

This is what has led two-time champion Fernando Alonso to refer to many overtakes this year as "avoiding actions".

From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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

And Lewis made a great point - in a kart race, you overtake one corner, he overtakes back.

From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026

“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”

From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull

Saint-Etienne were, until Paris St-Germain overtook them in the past decade, the most-decorated club in France with 10 league titles in 25 seasons from 1956-57 to 1980-81.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

For 10 years now — actually, since around the time streaming decisively overtook people’s listening habits — these Beatles releases have made a pretty compelling case for the collectible physical object.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

Brazil became the leader of Devon County Council in May last year after the Lib Dems overtook the Tories to become the largest party, but without overall control.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

The Candy Dance was a humming, skipping, foot-tapping, eating, smacking combination that overtook us when we had sweets.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

And after that, the wheels came off for the Australian, and he was overtaken by the end of the year not only by Norris, but also by Verstappen.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

Sales of its namesake brand peaked in 1970, the heyday of the Beetle and the Bus, before it was overtaken by Japanese rivals that proved better at adapting to evolving American tastes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026

“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

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

The shock of his experiences began to set in, and he was overtaken by a pounding headache and fever.

From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy

On the American side, he argued, the same inflated projections fueled warnings that China’s overtaking was inevitable, fueling a Washington consensus built partly on what he calls a statistical mirage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Musk has spent the majority of the past five years in the top position since first overtaking Bezos in 2021.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Based on his observations thus far, Spasojevic believes the burros could play an important role in the local ecosystem by grazing on non-native grasses and preventing them from overtaking native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The 2026 Latinobarometro survey showed that China overtaking the United States in terms of influence for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

And now there were more, even more people storming up the front steps, and Harry saw Charlie Weasley overtaking Horace Slughorn, who was still wearing his emerald pajamas.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling