overtake

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Overtake mode is triggered when a driver is within one second of the car in front at a detection point, usually before the first corner.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2026

Overtake in terms of viewership on living room devices?

From The Verge • Aug. 3, 2021

IPO Monday LivingSocial To Overtake Groupon With $400M: LivingSocial Investor 42 This past week was all about LinkedIn's massive IPO, but next week there are a new slate of companies prepping for initial public offerings.

From Forbes • May 20, 2011

The lead story of Wednesday's Global Times, a Communist Party-owned tabloid, pointedly raised the two countries' economic prospects, asking “Can China Overtake the U.S. in Five Years?”

From Time • Apr. 29, 2011

Overtake, ō-vėr-tāk′, v.t. to come up with: to catch: to come upon: to take by surprise.—p.adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various