overtake

Is there a chance someone might overtake it, if only for a moment?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

‘I know in my heart that they have not rested this night. Only an eagle could overtake them now.’

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

I do not think Qualcomm overtakes Nvidia on raw AI performance — but it does not have to.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 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

Manuel and Paolo are fighting over the meatballs, until Manuel overtakes and shoves them in his mouth.

From "The Unfinished Angel" by Sharon Creech

On the way to the waterfall, the family travelled in a bus with two other British families, but as the driver overtook another vehicle he "lost control and went downhill".

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

At times, the music overtook the gallery, completely captivating the attention of the room.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026

Apple’s market capitalization during Friday trading, when it briefly overtook Nvidia to become the world’s most valuable company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

For several nights he stayed awake as long as he could, but weariness always overtook him long before the hour at which the hinges might have squeaked.

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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

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

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

The light was no longer bright, for the clear morning had faded, and clouds creeping out of the East had now overtaken the sun, as it began to go down.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

How unusual is it for there to be one holdout juror that ends up overtaking a jury’s decision making like this?

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2026

A Bloomberg analysis suggests the nuclear push comes too late to stop China’s nuclear capacity from overtaking the U.S. fleet at the start of the next decade.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 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

It occurs to me what the unfamiliar feeling is that’s overtaking me: well-being.

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