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

From Science Daily • Nov. 16, 2023

In the years since, its predominantly African American student body has regularly outperformed other public schools in the region, with a curriculum that stresses the systemic inequities they are surmounting through education.

From The Guardian • Jan. 26, 2018

He views living in this sleepy capital as a challenge that he and other young entrepreneurs are surmounting.

From New York Times • May 2, 2015

But he is encouraged that ever more scholars are surmounting this to do what he calls "first-rate work" by anyone's standards.

From Time Magazine Archive

Scott's journal when he and his party are surmounting colossal tasks in the chivalrous hope of winning for their country the honourable distinction of first discovery of the South Pole.

From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry