- present tense form of top (3rd person singular).
tops
Example Sentences
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Pug tops podium at Word’s Ugliest Dog contest…
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
September carrots can look almost too virtuous at the farmers market: sturdy bunches, feathery green tops, dirt in the creases.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
That tops current analyst estimates for $792 million, according to FactSet.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
DeepSeek -- whose V4 Flash tops the usage leaderboard of technical platform OpenRouter -- said last week it plans a "significant increase" in prices for programmers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
They’ve got huge green leaves at their tops, and their bare trunks curve upwards like fingers reaching for the sky.
From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone
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