- present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).
surpasses
Example Sentences
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That surpasses the total for 2025, a year that had already shattered records, with 2,289 cases and three deaths including two young children.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
That’s partly because memory is essentially a commodity: Prices surge when demand surpasses supply, and collapse when it doesn’t.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The claim that more than 80% of the more than 11,000 claims of abuse could be fraudulent has drawn skepticism among some victims and attorneys, who say the number far surpasses what anyone had expected.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
On that basis, he easily surpasses John D. Rockefeller, the richest American who ever lived before Musk.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026
This is the only religious idea I know that surpasses the endless number of infinitely old cycling universes in Hindu cosmology.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
