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surpass

[ser-pas, -pahs] / sərˈpæs, -ˈpɑs /


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Another signed by Newsom earlier this year allows Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties to surpass a 2% limit on local sales taxes.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 17, 2026

These concerns are the latest in a long line of fears about AI's potential to threaten humanity should it grow to match or surpass human abilities.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The investments will stretch into the tens of billions of dollars, and possibly surpass more than $100 billion, they added.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 10, 2026

That put the category on track to surpass the annual record of $448 billion seen in 2025, according to a note from Matthew Bartolini, global head of research strategists at State Street Investment Management.

From MarketWatch Sep. 2, 2026

The Great Mosque of Mecca, when it is finished, will surpass the architectural beauty of India’s Taj Mahal.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

All of this rests on assumptions that the current technology, built on so-called large-language models, will develop into artificial general intelligence, a hypothetical computer system that surpasses human intelligence in all domains.

From Salon Sep. 16, 2026

Savannah Guthrie continued her calls for kidnappers to return her mother Nancy Guthrie, as the investigation into the elder Guthrie’s disappearance surpasses its six-month mark.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 15, 2026

In an “extreme” scenario, AI surpasses human productivity across most knowledge-work tasks, performing nearly all of them autonomously.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

Coxon considers Anthropic's efforts genuine but said he believes no company can responsibly develop an AI that surpasses humans without government intervention or a coordinated slowdown.

From Barron's Sep. 9, 2026

But it doesn't feel great when your younger sibling surpasses you.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda

The current outbreak, however, has already surpassed those earlier events in both its trajectory and scale.

From Science Daily Sep. 20, 2026

That figure has since been surpassed with 230 people on board a vessel in August.

From BBC Sep. 18, 2026

The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly surpassed 5% on Monday, a sign that borrowing costs could rise across the economy.

From MarketWatch Sep. 14, 2026

It’s a field where skeptics predicted that AI wouldn’t reach the most ambitious benchmarks for years—and AI has already surpassed them.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 12, 2026

It was the first burial and the best-attended one that was ever seen in the town, only surpassed, a century later, by Big Mama's funeral carnival.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The app that people use to access the Muse AI agent topped Apple’s charts for free productivity apps, surpassing OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 24, 2026

But in a reminder of the inflation pressure facing the Fed, diesel prices hit a new all-time high of $5.85 a gallon, surpassing their previous record from 2022.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 4, 2026

Lagos-based Dangote Petroleum Refinery is aiming to raise funds to double its capacity to 1.4 million barrels a day, which would make it the world's largest refinery, surpassing Jamnagar in India.

From Barron's Sep. 4, 2026

It amounts to quite the rebuild, with the Fernandez deal taking City's spending to a Premier League record £458m for a single transfer window, surpassing Liverpool's £415m from last summer.

From BBC Sep. 2, 2026

Burnham had all but given up hope of surpassing the Eiffel Tower.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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