overtake

Former boss Howard Schultz once expected Starbucks China to overtake the U.S. operation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● 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

"This could potentially overtake us here, this has gotten a little scary," a crew member says as the train rushes past burning trees near Armstrong, Ontario.

From BBC ● Jul. 15, 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

Mr. G—ing would look about him and w ould proclaim the joyous equality of all, the liberty that would soon overtake us.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

By spending 19 non-consecutive weeks at the top of the UK singles chart, it overtakes the record set by American crooner Frankie Laine with his track I Believe, in 1953.

From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

But when market speculation overtakes a stock’s actual fundamentals, the risks of a sharp—and painful—stock reversal become even greater.

From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026

Even when they’re ahead of his pace, they know it’s only a matter of time until the American overtakes them and leaves them in the dust.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 21, 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

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

Max Muncy overtook Ron Cey for second place on the team’s career home run list.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026

This year, the company overtook State Farm as the nation’s largest auto insurer, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 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

Seabiscuit overtook a pack of horses and stretched out for front-running Aneroid, his last obstacle.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

It was overtaken by “Spider-Man: Brand New Day‘s” $360 million.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2026

Now it has been overtaken globally by China’s BYD—which began, duh, as a battery company.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 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

With ticket sales of around $430 million worldwide, it has already overtaken the 1999 supernatural thriller "The Blair Witch Project", which made around $250 million on a full budget of $600,000, according to Nash.

From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026

But exhaustion had overtaken his body and his vision had gone blurry.

From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook

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 sector now makes up 30 percent of all Mexican products shipped to the United States, overtaking the automotive industry as the largest component of exports.

From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026

“There would be less chance of overtaking him, and much danger, too.”

From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander