Example Sentences

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But the Soviets have been surpassing the U.S. in some key strategic categories.

From Time Magazine Archive

I could get no further than the parlours, though the interest of the upper floors must have been surpassing.

From Over There War Scenes on the Western Front by Bennett, Arnold