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verb

surpass

to exceed; to be greater than

In a sentence

Six example sentences with surpass, each labelled with its topic.

  • By August her weekly mileage surpassed anything she had managed in three previous training years combined.

    Fitness

  • Solar output surpassed coal in the region last spring, a crossing point analysts had predicted for the following decade.

    Economics

  • Her second exhibition surpassed the first in every way, drawing twice the visitors and far warmer reviews.

    Art

  • She surpassed the school's career scoring record in her junior season, with a full year still left to play.

    Basketball

  • Quarterly revenue surpassed the forecast by a wide margin, and the shares jumped ten percent before the call ended.

    Finance

  • Machine translation surpassed the old phrase tables within two years, and the research group scrapped a decade of rules.

    Technology

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