overtake
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For Chinese companies trying to overtake American incumbents, releasing model weights earns trust, wins developers and makes their technology the default foundation for new applications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The decline allowed Apple to overtake Nvidia as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone maker rose by about 25% this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
“When’s he ever refereed a Quidditch match? He’s not going to be fair if we might overtake Slytherin.”
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
And Lewis made a great point - in a kart race, you overtake one corner, he overtakes back.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
That overtakes Canada, where U.S. exports totaled $336.5 billion or 15.4% of the total.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 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
The smile I denied him in church overtakes my face until I’m beaming at the wall.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
At times, the music overtook the gallery, completely captivating the attention of the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
It used to be the other round, and last year was the first year boys overtook girls in this respect since 2018.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
That Ishbia needed a bailout didn’t surprise some critics of the company, which overtook rival Rocket Mortgage as the largest mortgage lender by dollar volume by cultivating a network of brokers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
A heavy feeling overtook Seven as they crossed, maybe because them being here, gathering all the supplies they needed, meant they were really doing this.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Lately, however, products from Chinese and European rivals have overtaken the Model Y in a number of fundamental metrics.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s” $360 million.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026
The seven-time champion got ahead of Verstappen in the first pit stops - only to be overtaken again the next time around, the Dutchman making a brilliant move at Turn One that caught Hamilton napping.
From BBC ● Jul. 26, 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
One of the Myrish galleys had foundered in the Straits of Tarth, and a storm had overtaken them as they were entering the Gullet, scattering the fleet across half the narrow sea.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
The couple's car collided with an oncoming truck while overtaking another vehicle on Monday afternoon, said Nicolas Leclainche, the deputy public prosecutor in Niort in the Deux-Sevres department.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
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
A record of overtaking the West in electric vehicles and batteries gives many in China confidence the country can eventually break the U.S. stranglehold on chip technology.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 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
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