overtake

Now, Pogacar is in prime position to overtake all of them.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 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

Although Japan and the Netherlands are the favorites to win the group, Sweden could overtake both with a win, provided the Dutch do no better than a draw.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026

It won’t take much for SpaceX to overtake it.

From Barron's ● Jun. 16, 2026

Taran strove to overtake her and seize the hanging bridle, but the roan sped onward to the ravine.

From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander

See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

Last year's 78-lap race had just four overtakes in total.

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

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 rich warm chocolate overtakes my mouth, erases my mind, spinning me into a state of transcendence.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

Plus, we examine why Big Tech’s AI spending is $3 trillion higher than it seems, and how Burger King overtook Wendy’s.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

This summer the 27-year-old captain overtook Olivier Giroud as France's all-time leading goalscorer, and now has 64 in 104 games.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 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

Walking back to the school grounds from the railroad station in the descending darkness we overtook a lone figure sliding along the snow-covered edge of the street.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

The court heard that as the police officers tended to the taxi driver, a motorist who had been driving behind the police car when they were both overtaken by the BMW arrived on the scene.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s” $360 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Now it has been overtaken globally by China’s BYD—which began, duh, as a battery company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

Finucane is also Wales' most successful female athlete in Games history after overtaking Para-sprinter Olivia Breen, who held the record for two days.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 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

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

The lines of fire became flowing torrents, file upon file of Orcs bearing flames, and wild Southron men with red banners, shouting with harsh tongues, surging up, overtaking the retreat.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien