Example Sentences

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His creativity surmounted the quotidian constraints of public commissions.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025

These are issues that could potentially be surmounted through negotiation.

From BBC • May 7, 2024

The researchers have now surmounted this security vulnerability by leveraging terahertz waves to develop an antitampering ID tag that still offers the benefits of being tiny, cheap, and secure.

From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2024

The irrepressible Mr. Ozawa surmounted this prejudice by dint of his outsize personality, thoroughgoing musicianship and sheer hard work.

From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024

Evelyn recorded a suggestion that the Society might take as its coat of arms a representation of a pair of crossed telescopes surmounted by the Medicean planets.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton