Example Sentences

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"It’s not exactly clear when it got out of hand, but at some point fees were eclipsing the cost of the actual food, especially in New York, the largest market for delivery apps"

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2024

To some within the community, élite Latin-American interests were eclipsing the institution’s homegrown mission.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 13, 2019

And when the Japanese were eclipsing the U.S. economy through the keiretsu, large affiliated industrial companies working hand in hand with government—until Japan’s Lost Decade became two.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2018

In interviews with TIME, Arizona Democratic and Republican donors and activists said that economic issues were eclipsing immigration in the battleground.

From Time • Aug. 13, 2014

Lincoln stories were abroad; the true were eclipsing the false; and all the true ones gained him increasing credit.

From Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray by Wood, William Charles Henry