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Eclipsing more than 500 total yards in each of its past two games, Louisiana finished with 349 against the Golden Gophers.

From Washington Times • Sep. 30, 2023

Eclipsing her in achievements is far more lasting.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 15, 2019

Eclipsing such legacy issues in immediate significance are three developments that Washington currently neglects or treats as afterthoughts, along with one contradiction that simultaneously permeates and warps any discussion of national security.

From Salon • Oct. 20, 2018

Eclipsing the new record England set for tackles in a single match last week is not, in itself, the answer.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

For see, my friend goes shaking and white; He eyes me as the basilisk: I have turned, it appears, his day to night, Eclipsing his sun's disk.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert