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surpasses

  • present tense form of surpass (3rd person singular).

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That surpasses the total for 2025, a year that had already shattered records, with 2,289 cases and three deaths including two young children.

From Barron's Jul. 24, 2026

His record surpasses Coldplay's 10-night run last summer, as well as Swift's eight nights at the stadium in 2024.

From BBC Jul. 5, 2026

Since then, Lebanese health authorities say more than 4,250 people have been killed — a toll that surpasses the war deaths in Iran but in a country 16 times less populous.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 30, 2026

That’s partly because memory is essentially a commodity: Prices surge when demand surpasses supply, and collapse when it doesn’t.

From MarketWatch Jun. 18, 2026

This is the only religious idea I know that surpasses the endless number of infinitely old cycling universes in Hindu cosmology.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan