overtake
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The Ministry of Justice has warned the prison population will overtake capacity as soon as this November.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 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
It won’t take much for SpaceX to overtake it.
From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026
As long as he stuck to the trail, I was bound eventually to overtake him.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
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
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
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
Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Pyrrait wrote on Instagram, external that they had stopped to drink water and take photos, before setting off again with Strong initially in the lead, before the coach overtook him.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
On Monday, it briefly overtook rival Samsung Electronics as South Korea's most valuable listed company by market capitalization.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
Wanting to shake the corporals off, he quickened his pace, overtook the Scotsmen and pushed his way past a group of nuns shepherding a couple of dozen children in blue tunics.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
Parents who have watched their children cycle through different hobbies, whether it’s crafting friendship bracelets or concocting homemade slime, will recognize the single-minded fervor that has overtaken the students of Class 203.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 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
With ticket sales of around $430 million worldwide, it has already overtaken the 1999 supernatural thriller "The Blair Witch Project", which made around $250 million on a full budget of $600,000, according to Nash.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 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
The rational part of my brain finally kicked in, stomping down the chaos of panic and terror that had overtaken me.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
Okuda also oversaw the opening of Toyota factories abroad on the firm's way to overtaking General Motors as the world's largest automaker by vehicle sales.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
Nvidia, as the chipmaker at the center of the AI boom, had held the No. 1 spot for over a year after overtaking Apple in May 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
Asics’s has grown to 26 times, overtaking Nike’s earlier this year.
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
A serious headache was overtaking me by the time I headed for study hall with Danny tagging behind.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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