as in catching
to move fast enough to get even with
she had to hurry to overtake her friends, who had forgotten their umbrellas the thunderstorm overtook them suddenly
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Recent Examples of overtaking
Mbappé stepped up in the 70th minute and duly converted for his seventh goal of the tournament – overtaking Lionel Messi in the Golden Boot race due to his assist total.
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Patrick Sung Cuadrado,
CNN Money,
4 July 2026
The stock surged for several successive days following a record-breaking IPO, briefly overtaking both Amazon and Microsoft in terms of market cap and rising more than 60% on the initial share offering price of $135.
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Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
26 June 2026
Anthropic raised funding at a $965 billion valuation in late May, overtaking OpenAI’s private valuation for the first time.
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Alicia Park,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
That has changed more recently, with the right-wing Reform UK party overtaking the country’s traditional center-right Conservative Party and winning large numbers of seats in May’s local elections.
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Katie Marie Davies,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2026
The company’s valuation since then has soared close to $3 trillion, even overtaking Jeff Bezos’s Amazon at one point.
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Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
The next one on his list — apart from overtaking Klose — should be becoming only the third player, after Just Fontaine in 1958 and Jairzinho in 1970, to score in six consecutive World Cup appearances.
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Jay Harris,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Beijing has spent years investing heavily in power generation, data center capacity and AI development as part of its goal of overtaking America in emerging technologies.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
As of this writing, Backrooms has made more than $200 million globally, overtaking Marty Supreme as A24’s highest-grossing film ever.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
Patrick Sung Cuadrado,
CNN Money,
4 July 2026
The stock surged for several successive days following a record-breaking IPO, briefly overtaking both Amazon and Microsoft in terms of market cap and rising more than 60% on the initial share offering price of $135.
—
Kai Nicol-Schwarz,
CNBC,
26 June 2026
Anthropic raised funding at a $965 billion valuation in late May, overtaking OpenAI’s private valuation for the first time.
—
Alicia Park,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
That has changed more recently, with the right-wing Reform UK party overtaking the country’s traditional center-right Conservative Party and winning large numbers of seats in May’s local elections.
—
Katie Marie Davies,
Christian Science Monitor,
18 June 2026
The company’s valuation since then has soared close to $3 trillion, even overtaking Jeff Bezos’s Amazon at one point.
—
Eleanor Pringle,
Fortune,
17 June 2026
The next one on his list — apart from overtaking Klose — should be becoming only the third player, after Just Fontaine in 1958 and Jairzinho in 1970, to score in six consecutive World Cup appearances.
—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
17 June 2026
Beijing has spent years investing heavily in power generation, data center capacity and AI development as part of its goal of overtaking America in emerging technologies.
—
Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
15 June 2026
As of this writing, Backrooms has made more than $200 million globally, overtaking Marty Supreme as A24’s highest-grossing film ever.
—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
14 June 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for overtaking
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But this year, the city is catching a little guff over an apparent oversight.
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And that job is made all the more difficult when catching for two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who holds himself and his teammates to very high standards.
Verb
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Imanaga recovered a bit after the leadoff home run, but the Cardinals lineup coaxed long at-bats and drove up his pitch count, chasing the left-hander from the game after 4 2/3 innings.
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These businesses live or die by people answering phones, booking jobs, chasing payments and calming down upset customers.
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Buckhead Heritage, a historic preservation organization, will make a historic building its new headquarters after reaching an agreement with Atlanta Public Schools.
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Tehran has paused fragile negotiations with the US aimed at reaching a lasting deal to end their conflict during the multi-day funeral for Khamenei, who was killed in a US-Israeli strike in February, on the first day of the war.
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“Overtaking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/overtaking. Accessed 7 Jul. 2026.
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