surmount

Sometimes, even the best-laid plans can’t surmount a brick wall.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

When Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Federal Housing Administration in 1934, the country’s political class, or most of it, assumed the government could surmount any problem.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025

The results have implications for efforts to help children with hearing loss surmount initial language delays caused by a lack of auditory input and access to speech sounds before they receive cochlear implants.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

Some have fallen away, some can’t surmount the damage they’ve absorbed or inflicted on others, and too many have died young.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 17, 2024

The forces in favor of equality redoubled their efforts, determined to surmount the resistance to integration like a jet engine propelling an airplane through drag.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

Yet the show, now on view at the Brick through Sept. 19, is an achingly beautiful meditation on the difficulty of communication and the shared goodwill that intermittently, imperfectly, surmounts it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The line surmounts central Tacoma’s steep slope by climbing north of downtown, followed by a U-turn into Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Yet however cleverly constructed and enthusiastically executed, this debut feature — shot on an iPhone in a single location — rarely surmounts the twistiness of its premise and the repetitiveness of its setups.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

It’s the sort of heartening journey that will make one want to shout “Go, Teddy! Go!” each time he surmounts another hurdle.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019

The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king’s hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Stocks have also surmounted another potential threat: The revival of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

In the 1970s, the bipartisan effort to remove President Richard Nixon from office signified to many that the constitutional crisis he created had been surmounted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026

His creativity surmounted the quotidian constraints of public commissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025

These are issues that could potentially be surmounted through negotiation.

From BBC ● May 7, 2024

On the small bodice the pearls were worked in a shape Ged knew: the double arrow of the GodBrothers of the Kargad Empire, surmounted by a king’s crown.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin

Pianists have to stay on the job, maintaining composure and surmounting anxieties, so that their work acquires the necessary finish.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 2026

The band discusses their challenges without being deterred or overwhelmed by their situation, enduring and surmounting life's trials and tribulations with unapologetic grace and determination.

From Salon ● Jan. 30, 2024

The paper also provides examples of how people are surmounting some of these obstacles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

It’s associated with pleasure and the expectation or experience of a reward, which can include the surmounting of a threat “such as overcoming fear, winning a race, receiving respect and approbation from others,” Spiegel says.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 16, 2023

When they were able to arrange a meeting, surmounting all of Blanca’s usual obstacles in addition to the new ones imposed by Pedro’s job, they would find themselves more full of anguish than desire.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende