surmount
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AI critics make the mistake of assuming the industry is frozen in time and can’t surmount its present problems.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
Sometimes, even the best-laid plans can’t surmount a brick wall.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
Neither actor really tries to surmount their 20-year age gap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2025
To surmount this limit algorithmically, data scientists reconstruct higher-resolution images by eliminating both blurring and noise from recorded, limited-resolution images.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 28, 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
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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
It’s the sort of heartening journey that will make one want to shout “Go, Teddy! Go!” each time he surmounts another hurdle.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 19, 2019
Name-recognition, either through the media or word-of-mouth within cadres of art collectors, surmounts all.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2017
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
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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
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
These are issues that could potentially be surmounted through negotiation.
From BBC ● May 7, 2024
On the small bodice the pearls were worked in a shape Ged knew: the double arrow of the GodBrothers of the Kargad Empire, surmounted by a king’s crown.
From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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Pianists have to stay on the job, maintaining composure and surmounting anxieties, so that their work acquires the necessary finish.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 29, 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
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