overtaken

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Despite the 77% rally in the Korean market this year, rising earnings expectations means that the market doesn’t look expensive relative to the two markets it’s just overtaken.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

The only good news is that the Senate has yet to release its farm bill draft, so maybe this exercise gets overtaken by more pressing events.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

However, defeat at City would mean the Blues could have overtaken them by then, as they travel to relegation-threatened Burnley on Wednesday.

From BBC • Apr. 16, 2026

Although Lilly has been a later entrant to the weight-loss drug market than Novo, it nonetheless has overtaken its competitor in recent months, as sales of Lilly’s Zepbound injection continue to pull ahead of Wegovy.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 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