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She had surmounted one of the biggest obstacles housing officials say exists to using the voucher: getting a landlord to agree to rent to you.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2023

His team had surmounted a key obstacle in looking for receptors that the Covid-causing virus could attack.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2022

Still, she had surmounted serious differences with Trump’s two predecessors, George W. Bush and Obama, and became close partners with both.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 17, 2018

Yet a force more powerful and more serene had surmounted the whole lot of it, and a Thursday in 2017 had turned out to be luminous in part because it was unforeseeable.

From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2017

I’m cooking,” cried Marie-Jeanne, in the tone of one who had surmounted all obstacles and arrived at the very acme of her ambitions.

From The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle by Stokes, Katherine