overtake
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United is looking to extend its global reach to cement its lead over rivals and overtake Delta Air Lines as the most profitable U.S. carrier.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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
Climate scientists interviewed by AFP have said 2027 was likely to overtake 2024 as the hottest year on record.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
He agreed he had overtaken some vehicles on the journey, but said, "every overtake I did was in a safe manner".
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
It read: “Although the Bears failed to overtake the veteran Husky varsity ... in that last heartbreaking drive they proved that they were headed for the Olympic Games of 1936.”
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
Mikey: Plenty more overtakes, looks like we're on for a more exciting season.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2026
“I speculate it will be a while—if ever—before Amazon overtakes Walmart in retailing,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
He overtakes two of his compatriots who have won eight golds at Winter Olympics -- former cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie, and former biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Manuel and Paolo are fighting over the meatballs, until Manuel overtakes and shoves them in his mouth.
From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech
Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
This year, the company overtook State Farm as the nation’s largest auto insurer, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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
He was frozen in a stooped posture, as if he’d been trying to dislodge his feet as ice overtook the rest of him.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
“Natural gas has also overtaken oil as the primary inflation concern for European bond traders,” Danske Bank’s Jesper Fjarstedt says in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s” $360 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The Lovell Telescope has been overtaken in size by larger radio telescopes, but has continuously been modernised and remains key to the UK's radio astronomy capability.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
The Swiss jumped out to an early lead but were soon overtaken by the German boat.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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
It looked to have been a potentially fatal error to his victory hopes on a track where overtaking is all but impossible between evenly matched cars on similar strategies, but Norris stayed calm.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 2026
Asics’s has grown to 26 times, overtaking Nike’s earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
She sank to the ground and sobbed, a storm overtaking her.
From "Hollow City" by Ransom Riggs
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