surmounted

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Newsom, 58, a former San Francisco mayor who was born to a wealthy and well-connected San Francisco family, suggested in the CBS interview that he had already surmounted significant obstacles.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2025

The researchers have now surmounted this security vulnerability by leveraging terahertz waves to develop an antitampering ID tag that still offers the benefits of being tiny, cheap, and secure.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2024

Over at Shrubsole, I couldn’t look away from the contemporaneous Chinoiserie “epergne,” a botanically themed silver serving dish whose nine separate floating bowls are surmounted by a pagoda roof topped with a pineapple.

From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2024

Troops surmounted dense Russian fortifications last week to retake the village of Robotyne.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023

They were flanked by three incense burners whose basins were surmounted by animals nearly alive in their detail—roaring lion, fierce dragon, wise tortoise.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park