overtaken

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The U.S. has overtaken Saudi Arabia as the world’s biggest oil exporter this year, Reuters reported Thursday, citing data from ship-tracking services Vortexa.

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

He agreed he had overtaken some vehicles on the journey, but said, "every overtake I did was in a safe manner".

From BBC • Jun. 8, 2026

Though Hong Kong has overtaken Switzerland as the number one in cross-border wealth management, rather than enter panic mode, Swiss banks seem unruffled -- feeling it bolsters the case against looming tighter banking regulations.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

Drones have overtaken more-traditional threats such as antitank missiles, Israeli officials say, and are now the leading cause of battlefield deaths.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 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