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  • present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).

surpasses



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It’s been a “long time coming, a moment I had been imagining so intensely for so long. Surpasses everything I had imagined.”

From Washington Times • Nov. 16, 2021

It Surpasses the 35,271 who travelled to Wembley for the Women's FA Cup final in May.

From BBC • Sep. 25, 2017

Surpasses my descriving: Squadrons extended long and large, With furious speed rush to the charge, Like raging devils driving.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

A slender pittance, earn'd by honest industry, Surpasses mines of wealth acquir'd by fraud.

From The Female Gamester A Tragedy by Howard, Gorges Edmond

O Thou Great Being! what Thou art, Surpasses me to know; Yet sure I am, that known to Thee Are all Thy works below.

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert



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