overtake
Example Sentences
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Last year India leapt to third place -- overtaking South Korea and Japan -- in an annual global ranking of AI competitiveness calculated by Stanford University researchers.
From Barron's
Lillard went second in the finals and watched anxiously from the bench as it looked like Booker would overtake him before missing his last three shots from the corner.
From Los Angeles Times
That year, the Taurus overtook the Accord as the nation’s bestselling car.
A series of recent polls have also shown the populist One Nation Party - which only got 6% of the national vote last year - overtaking the Coalition to take second place behind Labor.
From BBC
Carvana is on track to overtake CarMax in volume of vehicles sold at retail after posting large gains the past couple of years.
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