overtaken
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Ella Langley's country smash Choosin' Texas has overtaken Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You to become the longest-running number one single in US chart history.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026
“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
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
And there's been a further decline in the number of entries for French, which was overtaken in popularity by Spanish for the first time last year.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
They looked almost green with infection, and Seven tried hard not to gag from the smell that had overtaken the valley as they transformed.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
