surmount

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Sometimes, even the best-laid plans can’t surmount a brick wall.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

When Franklin Roosevelt signed the law creating the Federal Housing Administration in 1934, the country’s political class, or most of it, assumed the government could surmount any problem.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Neither actor really tries to surmount their 20-year age gap.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2025

To surmount this limit algorithmically, data scientists reconstruct higher-resolution images by eliminating both blurring and noise from recorded, limited-resolution images.

From Science Daily • Mar. 28, 2024

The forces in favor of equality redoubled their efforts, determined to surmount the resistance to integration like a jet engine propelling an airplane through drag.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly