surpass
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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
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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
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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
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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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