exceed
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Making a return on the vast sums being invested, which already exceed the railroad or internet booms, assumes sales growth unlike anything in history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026
It takes 19 years to cumulatively exceed the amount your pension gives you.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
An analysis published by the MoD in December 2023, under the previous government, found the department's most recent equipment plan was forecast to exceed its budget by £16.9bn.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
These rare particles can exceed 100 exa-electron volts, or 100 quintillion electron volts.
From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026
By agreement with their investors, their fund could be 25 percent net short or 50 percent net long the stock market, and the gross positions could never exceed 200 percent.
From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing exceed
Power Prefix: ex-
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