overtake

Thanks in part to boffo sales of the Telluride—built in West Point, Ga.—Hyundai Motor Group is on course to overtake Ford as the third bestselling automaker in the U.S.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2026

The press secretary recalled the perception in 2016 was that China would soon overtake the United States.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

The inclusion of a sprint event in Monaco will inevitably raise eyebrows, given it is almost impossible to overtake around the historic street circuit.

From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026

Sluis expects direct-to-consumer purchases may eventually overtake wholesale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

The screen is filled with the dizzying image of the distance from where she’s sitting to the river below, the water underneath her strong enough to overtake anything in its path.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott

By spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, it overtakes the record set by American crooner Frankie Laine with his track I Believe, in 1953.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

That is when a fire spreads so suddenly and rapidly that it overtakes personnel or equipment, cutting off escape routes and forcing trapped firefighters to deploy an emergency, last-resort shelter tent.

From BBC ● Jun. 28, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 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

It overtakes you literally by degrees as your body temperature falls and your natural responses grow sluggish and disordered.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

China overtook Japan as the world’s top auto exporter in 2023 by shipping inexpensive cars to Russia after Western producers pulled out.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

The Cybertruck-maker faces intense competition from Chinese carmakers like BYD, which overtook Tesla as the world's biggest EV maker in January.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

There was a sense of freedom that overtook some of his angry feelings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Saint-Etienne were, until Paris St-Germain overtook them in the past decade, the most-decorated club in France with 10 league titles in 25 seasons from 1956-57 to 1980-81.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

As his train roared across Indiana, it overtook a cold front.

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

But in recent years, its leading position in the business of bankruptcy has been overtaken by larger competitors and an industrywide shift toward restructurings driven by private-equity-owned companies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

"If fitness has overtaken your daily joy sources, then it's likely a problem has developed," she added.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

Six months into the war, the supply crunch for diesel, jet fuel and gasoline has overtaken upheaval in the crude-oil market as the energy industry’s primary concern.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Several years ago he became increasingly frustrated with the professionalism that has overtaken the larger Southland high schools — he has been outspoken against the constant stream of transfers — so he had an idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

Now was the time to ask about the trip, but the same torpor that had overtaken Father also affected Tendai.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

On the American side, he argued, the same inflated projections fueled warnings that China’s overtaking was inevitable, fueling a Washington consensus built partly on what he calls a statistical mirage.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

Musk has spent the majority of the past five years in the top position since first overtaking Bezos in 2021.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2026

Based on his observations thus far, Spasojevic believes the burros could play an important role in the local ecosystem by grazing on non-native grasses and preventing them from overtaking native plants.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

The 2026 Latinobarometro survey showed that China overtaking the United States in terms of influence for the first time since the annual survey began in 1995.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The idea of overtaking Slytherin in the House Championship was wonderful, no one had done it for seven years, but would they be allowed to, with such a biased referee?

From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling