overtake

Is there a chance someone might overtake it, if only for a moment?

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

United is looking to extend its global reach to cement its lead over rivals and overtake Delta Air Lines as the most profitable U.S. carrier.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 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

But Mrs. Underdown warned us that, pills or no pills, too many mosquito bites could still overtake the quinine in our blood and spell our doom.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

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

See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026

“I speculate it will be a while—if ever—before Amazon overtakes Walmart in retailing,” he said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He overtakes two of his compatriots who have won eight golds at Winter Olympics -- former cross-country skiers Marit Bjoergen and Bjoern Daehlie, and former biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen.

From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026

The farther I am away from the village, the more my anger overtakes my sadness.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

Cloudflare, an internet-infrastructure company that provides web security and bot-detection tools to millions of websites, says bots overtook humans on its network in June, generating 57% of all traffic it sees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026

The aggressive Plaskett fire overtook the Timber fire in size, and together they have blackened more than 50,000 acres.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

On the way to the waterfall, the family travelled in a bus with two other British families, but as the driver overtook another vehicle he "lost control and went downhill".

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

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

Just as he reached the little lawn among the rowans he overtook him, toiling uphill, panting and calling, Frodo!

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

“Natural gas has also overtaken oil as the primary inflation concern for European bond traders,” Danske Bank’s Jesper Fjarstedt says in a note.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

Several years ago he became increasingly frustrated with the professionalism that has overtaken the larger Southland high schools — he has been outspoken against the constant stream of transfers — so he had an idea.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026

And there's been a further decline in the number of entries for French, which was overtaken in popularity by Spanish for the first time last year.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

The Lovell Telescope has been overtaken in size by larger radio telescopes, but has continuously been modernised and remains key to the UK's radio astronomy capability.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

And then someone would start talking, someone else would chime in, and the quiet of the barn would gradually be overtaken by conversations like these.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

Norris was able to recover only to third around the new Madring track in Madrid where overtaking is next to impossible.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

The difficulty in overtaking is what makes this a real opportunity for Norris to take a third win of the season, even if the McLaren is not the fastest car.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

He made remarkable progress up through the field from 19th on the grid, wasting no time in picking off cars in front, minimising any loss from overtaking to his overall race time.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

The Dutchman briefly took the lead from Russell on lap 11, before the Briton re-passed him three laps later, Antonelli overtaking the Red Bull into the second chicane.

From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026

A serious headache was overtaking me by the time I headed for study hall with Danny tagging behind.

From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals