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Earlier this month, the San Lorenzo Valley Water District, which serves areas affected by the CZA Lightning Complex Fire, reported levels of benzene—a known carcinogen—exceeding state health standards.

In the worst-case emissions scenario, that number could almost double in some regions, exceeding 15 days each fall.

Nearly nine in every 10 exceeded the recommended two-hour daily limit on non-school screen time.

The honorees on Fortune’s 2020 40 Under 40 certainly know how to get things done, so we asked them to tell us more about how they set and exceed their ambitious goals.

From Fortune

US government debt as a ratio of GDP is poised to exceed 100% for the full fiscal year, making it the first time that’s happened since 1946, according to projections from the Center for Management and Budget.

From Quartz

Gender roles exceed the biological circumstances of childbirth and they are, perhaps, much less likely to change.

A season of Game of Thrones tells its story over ten hours, and only a video game adaptation could match or exceed that.

Six months out of the year, the temperatures exceed 100 degrees.

Some rights groups suspect the numbers exceed 200,000 prisoners, including women and children.

Indeed, it is troubling to see highly shared medical campaigns whose shares far exceed donations.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

But, he finally secured the address of a company who would manufacture a book to exceed 300 pages for fifty cents per book.

In the great majority of cases megaloblasts exceed normoblasts in number.

The expense of altering the engine, and forking the water to bottom, and proving the mine, will not exceed 1000l.

It should not exceed the ounce of tincture: about two drachms may be added after using it for paper.

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On this page you'll find 80 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to exceed, such as: eclipse, outpace, outstrip, top, beat, and best.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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