surmount

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

Treasury yields rose as inflation fears continued to surmount growth worries—even after a disappointing U.S. jobs print Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

Elwood is convinced he can surmount obstacles; Turner is resigned to going around them.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 20, 2024

That’s precisely why I forced myself to surmount my anxiety on the second day of Lollapalooza when we were slated to see the Chilis.

From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2024

Unable to surmount these obstacles, most will eventually return to prison and then be released again, caught in a closed circuit of perpetual marginality.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Yet the show, now on view at the Brick through Sept. 19, is an achingly beautiful meditation on the difficulty of communication and the shared goodwill that intermittently, imperfectly, surmounts it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

The line surmounts central Tacoma’s steep slope by climbing north of downtown, followed by a U-turn into Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 22, 2023

Yet however cleverly constructed and enthusiastically executed, this debut feature — shot on an iPhone in a single location — rarely surmounts the twistiness of its premise and the repetitiveness of its setups.

From New York Times ● Jan. 25, 2022

Each arrives at a version of freedom that surmounts the original constraints.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 17, 2021

The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king’s hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me.

From "Grendel" by John Gardner

Stocks have also surmounted another potential threat: The revival of the conflict between the U.S. and Iran.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 17, 2026

There are many engineering challenges that would have to be surmounted to make such a system operational, says Cohen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

His creativity surmounted the quotidian constraints of public commissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 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

Davos could see the domed roof of the Sept of the Snows as well, surmounted by tall statues of the Seven.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Walker—three women who built empires by surmounting steep racial and gender barriers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 25, 2026

While Siwa faced surmounting challenges when she came out — the star was able to do it years earlier than child stars who came before her like Lovato and Symoné.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

The paper also provides examples of how people are surmounting some of these obstacles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 16, 2023

It’s associated with pleasure and the expectation or experience of a reward, which can include the surmounting of a threat “such as overcoming fear, winning a race, receiving respect and approbation from others,” Spiegel says.

From National Geographic ● Oct. 16, 2023

When they were able to arrange a meeting, surmounting all of Blanca’s usual obstacles in addition to the new ones imposed by Pedro’s job, they would find themselves more full of anguish than desire.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende