overtake
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For Chinese companies trying to overtake American incumbents, releasing model weights earns trust, wins developers and makes their technology the default foundation for new applications.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
The decline allowed Apple to overtake Nvidia as the world's most valuable company after the iPhone maker rose by about 25% this year.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 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
Although Japan and the Netherlands are the favorites to win the group, Sweden could overtake both with a win, provided the Dutch do no better than a draw.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 23, 2026
They are making the pace, they overtake us continually.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
See more: SpaceX overtakes Amazon to become fifth-largest company in the world.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 16, 2026
This is what has led two-time champion Fernando Alonso to refer to many overtakes this year as "avoiding actions".
From BBC ● Jun. 3, 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
“In their youth, mortals behave more like nymphs. Adulthood seems impossibly distant, let alone the enfeeblement of old age. But ponderously, inevitably, it overtakes you. I find it a frustrating, humbling, infuriating experience.”
From "Fablehaven" by Brandon Mull
This summer the 27-year-old captain overtook Olivier Giroud as France's all-time leading goalscorer, and now has 64 in 104 games.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
Last term, when there were both more cases and more referrals to the full court, the appeals to the shadow docket finally overtook those to the merits docket.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
On Monday, it briefly overtook rival Samsung Electronics as South Korea's most valuable listed company by market capitalization.
From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026
With more than 98% of the votes counted in Sunday’s runoff election, she overtook her leftist opponent, Roberto Sánchez, with 50.002% support—a difference of just a few hundred votes out of nearly 20 million cast.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
They followed him for a while and then they overtook him.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
Ten years after the fall of Troy, Odysseus still hasn’t returned home to Ithaca, and his kingdom has been overtaken by suitors crudely courting his wife’s hand.
From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026
The room is overtaken with projections, scenes of bustling New York traffic paired with bachelor-pad-like guitar riffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
Plans for celebrating the United States' 250th anniversary on Saturday have been quickly overtaken by storm preparations.
From Barron's ● Jul. 3, 2026
Our archaeologist might therefore look at the Americas and conclude that Africans, despite their apparently enormous head start, would have been overtaken by the earliest Americans within at most a millennium.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Nvidia, as the chipmaker at the center of the AI boom, had held the No. 1 spot for over a year after overtaking Apple in May 2025.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 27, 2026
The sector now makes up 30 percent of all Mexican products shipped to the United States, overtaking the automotive industry as the largest component of exports.
From Barron's ● Jul. 21, 2026
Earlier this week, Kim vowed to strengthen his military “with a goal of overtaking the world” and oversaw the test of tactical missiles and an upgraded rocket launcher that puts South Korea within range.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
After overtaking the suspect and another officer chasing him on foot, the van pulled over.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2026
On the computer screen, red is overtaking green.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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