surmount
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The company’s giant Surmount II facility, a joint venture with France’s Total SA, TOT 2.22 % began production on Sept. 1—nearly five years after it broke ground.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 6, 2015
What joy beyond expression! couldst thou once Surmount the furious storm of fierce revenge, And yield ye to the charms of love and mercy.
From Tragedy by Thorndike, Ashley H.
Surmount the rocky steps, Climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch; He fails alone who feebly creeps, He wins who dares the hero's march.
From It Can Be Done Poems of Inspiration by Morris, Joseph
Nay, then with safety we may walk a turn, Though I confess, do what I can, my fears Surmount my Reason and perswades there’s danger.
From The Fatal Jealousie (1673) by Thorp, Willard
Surmount, sur-mownt′, v.t. to mount above: to surpass: to overcome, get the better of.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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