exceed
Example Sentences
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If your spending would exceed 6% of your portfolio, you cap your spending at 6%.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 23, 2026
This will comfortably exceed the current June temperature record of 35.6C set in 1976.
From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026
Matches so far are averaging roughly 65,500 fans per match, meaning overall attendance could exceed 6.5 million.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2026
"In some catchments where permafrost has become patchier, weathering-driven carbon uptake was large enough to offset or even exceed river CO2 emissions."
From Science Daily • Jun. 20, 2026
The speed of light is the ultimate speed limit; you cannot reach it, much less exceed it.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
Vocabulary lists containing exceed
Power Prefix: ex-
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