overtake
Example Sentences
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Lillard went second in the finals and watched anxiously from the bench as it looked like Booker would overtake him before missing his last three shots from the corner.
From Los Angeles Times
That year, the Taurus overtook the Accord as the nation’s bestselling car.
A series of recent polls have also shown the populist One Nation Party - which only got 6% of the national vote last year - overtaking the Coalition to take second place behind Labor.
From BBC
Carvana is on track to overtake CarMax in volume of vehicles sold at retail after posting large gains the past couple of years.
Aged 37, Stone is the youngest woman ever to earn seven Oscar nominations, overtaking Meryl Streep, who was 38.
From BBC
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